The revelations did nothing to cool anger on Capitol Hill toward China or ease bipartisan concerns about the Biden administration’s handling of the incident.
China has been conducting balloon surveillance for years and monitored dozens of countries, the Biden administration said, on a day when its handling of the balloon that traversed the country last week came under sharp bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Thomas Tiffany, Wisconsin Republican, said the resolution is meant to send a message to the national security and intelligence communities to strengthen their scrutiny of China. Lawmakers went into the closed-door talks demanding answers as to why the administration chose not to shoot down the spy craft immediately after it was detected in U.S. airspace and whether the Pentagon has a plan to deal with any further incursions.
“We were able to protect any national security, sensitive information that was on the ground as it was moving on its path,” she said. When the Pentagon felt it was safe, she added, “the president ordered to shoot it down.”“I’m not persuaded,” said Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, the top Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, when asked whether Mr. Biden made the right call in allowing the Chinese craft to travel for five days over the U.S.
U.S. Navy divers have pulled up pieces of the downed craft off the South Carolina coast, and experts are examining the equipment to try to understand their functions and sources, U.S. officials said. “It’s a powerful message to send because, generally, the Communist Party of China believes the U.S. is a hollowed, declining superpower,” he said.
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