On Friday, the Pentagon spotted a second Chinese “spy” balloon flying over Latin America, a day after the first balloon was spotted in US airspace, Pat Ryder, a spokesman for the US Department of Defense, said without elaboration. its exact location and the balloon that flew at high altitude above the sky were tracked. On Thursday, the Pentagon announced that it was tracking the movements of a Chinese “spy” balloon flying at high altitude over the United States, including areas containing secret military installations.
Flying a purported Chinese spy balloon over the United States is a bolder, if more arcane, espionage tactic than using satellites and stealing industrial and defense secrets, security experts said.
Both the United States and China have used surveillance satellites to spy on the other country from the air for decades, but China’s recent balloon launches, of which a Washington official said last week’s incident was not the first, have left some in Washington in ” It’s more unprofessional in a way,” said John Bolton, a former White House national security adviser. “Aren’t the cameras on their satellites high enough resolution to send an airship?”
The balloon buzz comes as China builds up its military capabilities and challenges the US military presence in the Pacific, and the US also believes that Beijing routinely seeks information from US companies.
On the other hand, China said: “The airship was intended for civilian meteorology and scientific purposes and got lost in American airspace, accusing politicians and the US media on Saturday of using the situation to discredit China. Chinese threat.
As Ding Cheng, senior adviser for the China Program at the US Institute of Peace, said: “The airship that was discovered last week was clearly deliberately provocative. He added: “This is a way to test the reaction of the other side not in a military sense, but in a political sense, what are you doing with it? Are you keeping calm? And if there are actually a lot of launches and this is not the first time, then an interesting question arises, what happened to the balls? Did we hit him?
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