China’s downed spy balloon offers U.S. intelligence officials new insight into Chinese Communist surveillance capabilities, according to President Joe Biden’s top national security aide.
“There are vessels from both the Navy and the Coast Guard on station, working, as we speak, to recover it so that we can then exploit what we recover and learn even more than we have learned,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday. “But we have already been able to learn a fair amount about the capabilities and the tradecraft of this balloon because we were able to monitor it through multiple different means as it traversed the United States.
“The Chinese side has, after verification, repeatedly informed the U.S. side of the civilian nature of the airship and conveyed that its entry into the U.S. due to force majeure was totally unexpected,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Monday. “Under such circumstances, the U.S. use of force is a clear overreaction and a serious violation of international practice.
Sen. Chris Coons agreed that “we will have learned more from this than the Chinese will,” but he downplayed the significance of the incident. That assessment provided an implicit contrast with Sullivan’s claim that the detection of the balloon demonstrated the superior “vigilance” of the U.S. intelligence community under Biden in comparison to his predecessor, President Donald Trump.
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