WASHINGTON: China's flight of a suspected spy balloon over the United States appears to mark a more aggressive - albeit
"This is a way to test how does the other side respond, not in a military sense. But politically, what do you do about it? Do you keep it quiet? If there have been in fact many and this is not the first time, then it raises an interesting question. What happened to the previous ones? Did we shoot them down?” he said.
"Specifically targeting a certain military base with that balloon from a launch in China, in January or February, in the northern hemisphere, is very difficult to do, if not impossible," Antonio said, speculating that the balloon's venture into US airspace could have been the result of a failed experiment, or some failure in its self-termination system.
China's alleged clamour for American trade secrets has been so sweeping that the FBI estimated last October that it was opening a new Chinese counter-intelligence operation every 12 hours. "There is no doubt that that dynamic is changing and the Chinese are becoming more aggressive for whatever reason."The United States has been also been accused of spying by China.
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