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'We'll get to the bottom of it.' US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says Chinese 'spy balloons' present a 'risk to civil aviation' and potentially an 'intelligence collection threat'. Live: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

Spy balloons 'present a risk to civil aviation'

The US official also says the recovery of debris is unique to each location and the FBI continues to liaise with Canadian officials. It's possible, even probable, that the others were Chinese too; all part of an attempt by China to fish for intelligence or simply to test America's red lines. But he wasn't answering the question he was asked. Does the United States have any surveillance aircraft in airspace claimed China claims a vast swathe of maritime territory off its southern coast - within what Beijing calls a"nine dash line" that stretches will into Filipino and Malaysian waters.

Meanwhile, Mr Lawson says"looking at stratospheric approaches to the West" is not going to pick up a lot more.

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