Republican Party MPs have questioned the delay in ordering US President Joe Biden. Republican lawmakers on Sunday accused China of deliberately spying on sensitive US military bases using a suspicious surveillance balloon.
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Republican Party MPs have questioned the delay in ordering US President Joe Biden. Republican lawmakers on Sunday accused China of deliberately spying on sensitive US military bases using a suspicious surveillance balloon.
Lawmakers said the Biden administration gave Beijing access to US intelligence by not ordering the Chinese balloon to be shot down immediately after it learned it was flying high in US airspace. At the same time, China accused Washington of using unreasonable force, reacting strongly to the incident of the US military shooting down its weather research balloon.
China-US relations escalated
China’s Vice Foreign Minister Shi Feng said he officially lodged a complaint with the US embassy on Sunday over the “incident of China’s civilian unmanned aerial vehicle being shot down by military force”. The incident of Chinese balloon flying in the American sky has added to the tension in the already tense China-US relations.
Blinken had postponed traveling abroad
On Saturday, the US military shot down a Chinese balloon on the instructions of President Joe Biden while it was passing over the Atlantic Ocean. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday postponed his visit to Beijing after a Chinese balloon appeared in the American sky. At the same time, after the balloon was shot down, China’s Defense Ministry issued a statement saying that ‘it reserves the right to take necessary steps in response’.
Spy balloon entered US air defense area on January 28
“This was clearly an attempt by China to gather information and disrupt command and control of our sensitive missile defense and nuclear weapons bases,” said Mike Turner, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and Republican from Ohio.
This is definitely an emergency, which the administration failed to anticipate.” US defense and military officials had told that the Chinese balloon entered the US air defense zone on January 28 via the Aleutian Islands and entered Canadian airspace on January 30 after flying for a long time in Alaska.
On February 1, it re-entered US airspace and began flying over northern Idaho. On the same day, the White House said that President Biden had been informed about the Chinese balloon flying in American airspace.
“This suggests the balloon could have been safely shot down somewhere between Alaska and the Carolinas, but it was not,” said Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate.
