{"id":550279,"date":"2023-02-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chinese-spy-balloon-revelations-raise-stakes-for-us-response\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T11:00:00","slug":"chinese-spy-balloon-revelations-raise-stakes-for-us-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chinese-spy-balloon-revelations-raise-stakes-for-us-response\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chinese spy balloon revelations raise stakes for US response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26ea78b48b5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26ea78b48b5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chinese-spy-balloon-revelations-raise-stakes-for-us-response\/#Chinese_spy_balloon_revelations_raise_stakes_for_US_response\" >Chinese spy balloon revelations raise stakes for US response<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chinese_spy_balloon_revelations_raise_stakes_for_US_response\"><\/span>Chinese spy balloon revelations raise stakes for US response<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/china_balloon_navy_020723.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The discovery that a Chinese spy balloon shot down off the U.S. coast had the equipment to collect communications, and not just images, as it <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed across the country last week has upped the stakes around the incident.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. lawmakers are demanding new action from the Biden administration after the Thursday revelations that the balloon possessed antennas to collect communications signals and solar panels to power its sensors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Washington was also rattled by <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> earlier this week that the airship was part of a much larger operation run by the Chinese military to spy on more than 40 countries across five continents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incursion, which until last week was largely unknown to much of the American public, seems to mark a new era of espionage and counter-espionage activities between the U.S. and China, according to John Ciorciari, the director of the Weiser Diplomacy Center at the University of Michigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident makes it likely the U.S. accelerates different kinds of counterintelligence initiatives and expands to areas like, who do we grant visas to? Who is allowed to study at universities?\u201d Ciorciari told The Hill. \u201cAn acceleration of those kinds of policies, the Chinese government will probably mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government isn\u2019t wasting time in punching back at the breach. A State Department official on Thursday said the U.S. is exploring options to take action against the Chinese military and entities supporting the balloon spying operation. Washington will also seek to further expose the Chinese global surveillance campaign, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional lawmakers also denounced Beijing, with the House later in the day unanimously passing a resolution condemning China\u2019s use of the surveillance balloon over the United States, calling it a \u201cbrazen violation\u201d of U.S. sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution also calls on the Biden administration to keep Congress abreast of any new information gleaned from the incident.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But lawmakers remain unsatisfied by the information to come out of the White House and Pentagon so far, as well as the reasoning for why the U.S. military didn\u2019t move quicker to down the balloon before it drifted slowly across U.S. territory for days before being shot off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions were particularly high at a Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>ropriations subcommittee hearing with defense officials.<\/p>\n<p>Alaskan Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), whose state\u2019s airspace was the first to be breached by the Chinese balloon on Jan. 28, was visibly angry as she questioned the witnesses.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cAs an Alaskan, I am so angry. I want to use other words but I\u2019m not going to,\u201d she said. \u201cThe fact of the matter is, Alaska is the first line of defense for America, right? If you\u2019re going to have Russia coming at you, if you\u2019re going to have China coming at you, we know exactly how they come. They come up and they go over Alaska.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She later added: \u201cSeems to me the clear message to China is \u2018we\u2019ve got free range in Alaska, because they\u2019re going to let us cruise over that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), meanwhile, said \u201cit defies belief that there was not a single opportunity to safely shoot down this spy balloon prior to the coast of South Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>And the subcommittee chairman, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), whose state also was in the balloon\u2019s flight path, demanded answers as to how the administration has responded to past instances of Chinese aerial spying, what the balloons were collecting, and if there are any plans to respond if such a thing happens again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we have a plan for when this happens again and what we\u2019re going to do and when we\u2019re going to do it?\u201d Tester asked the witnesses, which included Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs Melissa Dalton and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Jedidiah Royal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want a damn balloon going across the United States when we could potentially have taken it down over the Aleutian Islands,\u201d he added. \u201cI got a problem with a Chinese balloon flying over my state, much less the rest of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Royal assured Tester that the Defense Department has \u201csome very good guesses\u201d about what intel China was attempting to gather with the balloon, promising more details in the classified version of the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>But Tester responded that while U.S. intelligence agencies may \u201cthink we know what they were going to collect, we don\u2019t know. That scares the hell out of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked repeatedly why the government didn\u2019t im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely shoot down the balloon when it was detected over Alaska, the defense officials repeated past assertions that the debris field caused by such an operation, even in a remote area such as Alaska, was still too much of a risk to citizens on the ground.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Taking down the balloon over Alaska would have also made it significantly more difficult and dangerous to \u201csalvage, understand and exploit the capabilities\u201d of the devices on board given the cold, volatile and deep waters around the state, Dalton said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also concerning for intelligence officials and lawmakers is that four previous spy balloons flew over the U.S. initially undetected, according to the Pentagon \u2014 three during the Trump administration and another months ago during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Heath, a senior International defense researcher with Rand Corporation, said the incident should prompt the U.S. to develop better <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> to detect future balloons.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible that the U.S. military really didn\u2019t think the Chinese would have the gall to float one right over our own country,\u201d he said. \u201cI can understand why they didn\u2019t detect them in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heath said current radar systems focus on missiles and aircraft coming into U.S. airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to detect [balloons] with radar, you need to have some kind of new technology that can pick up very low observable things in the sky like balloons,\u201d Heath continued.<\/p>\n<p>In a heightened era of U.S.-China tensions, it\u2019s possible that other technologies and Chinese tactics will fall under more scrutiny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Areas of concern include social media app TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese company and is already being banned on government devices in Republican-led states, along with Chinese companies buying up land near U.S. military bases and Beijing\u2019s deployment of covert agents at American universities .<\/p>\n<p>Ciorciari, of the University of Michigan, said espionage is common among nations \u2014 but the Chinese spy balloon placed the image of such spying \u201cin the minds of average American citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, he predicted, there will be \u201cmore pressure to limit espionage\u201d by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe threat that I see is not so much the intelligence collection capabilities of the balloons,\u201d he said, but \u201cwhere this set of episodes fit in the broader relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s still much to learn about the balloon shot down over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Navy, helped by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is still attempting to collect balloon debris from the Atlantic Ocean to glean information on the Chinese technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far, dive teams have only pulled the canopy, some wiring and a small amount of electronics from the water, FBI officials said in a briefing Thursday. The rest is at the \u201cocean bottom,\u201d including the majority of the balloon\u2019s payload, with recovery efforts expected to take a while due to weather.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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