Biden Bungles China Spy Balloon Challenge
February 03, 2023
The Biden administration has no clue how to handle the China threat, including the spy balloon that blew over the U.S. It appears about as competent securing our airspace as it does securing our border. Pictured: President Joe Biden during a virtual summit with China's President Xi Jinping at the White House on Nov. 15, 2021. (Photo: Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images)
COMMENTARY BY
James Carafano
James Jay Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, E. W. Richardson fellow, and director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies. Read his research.
In the wake of China admitting today that a large surveillance balloon flying over the U.S. was its own, critical questions arise.
What is China surveilling? How invasive is this? Is this an act of aggression? Should we believe China when it says it was an accident?
Everything Beijing does is with intention, and until we fully understand its intentions, we can’t really assess the scope of the threat.
China has very capable and growing space capability to watch what is going on here on earth. Perhaps there is some special niche need it is trying to fill with balloons. Balloons and untethered aerial surveillance and intelligence collection assets tricked out with modern technology and powered by solar panels are increasingly used by modern militaries for special missions.
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