Opinion | China’s red balloon: Best-case scenario is that it’s just for spying WashTimesOpEd
Which might make you wonder: How would China’s rulers react were an American balloon floating over their country? I can answer that question.
I’ll tell you the end of the story in a minute, but first, a more serious discussion. Hanging below last week’s Red Chinese balloon was an array of equipment for collecting intelligence. U.S. officials say such balloons have been spying on more than 40 countries across five continents. Surely the U.S. government has considered and prepared for that, right? Not necessarily: In 1996, Vice President Al Gore chaired the White House Commission on Aviation Safety. A year later, he issued a report. What did it say about passenger jets being hijacked by terrorists and used as missiles? Not a word.
In 2001, the U.S. government took this possibility seriously enough that it established a commission to “assess the threat to the United States” from an EMP attack — or from a naturally occurring EMP event caused by storms on the surface of the sun.
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