Top Republicans on Sunday criticized the Biden administration for waiting to shoot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon until it was over the ocean, arguing a more aggressive response was needed in the face of obvious Chinese provocation.
Rubio dismissed comparisons to previous episodes of Chinese aircraft illegally entering U.S. airspace. “What is unprecedented,” he told the network, “is a balloon flight that entered over Idaho, over Montana, all these sensitive military installations: air force bases, ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] fields, right across the middle of the country. That has never happened before.”A device that “flew briefly over part of the U.S., or continental U.S., that’s one thing.
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded nearby flights and coordinated with the Pentagon, which sent an aircraft to take down the balloon, creating a debris field about seven miles wide, he said. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu , who said he is considering a presidential run in 2024, said on ABC’s “This Week” that the balloon was “China poking at us.”“This is all about China testing the American resolve — whether it’s the TikTok, or the balloon or whatever the thing is going to be next month — they know that tensions are escalating and they want to see what kind of leadership we have,” he said.
Turner said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the U.S. military should have shot down the balloon days earlier when it was over sparsely populated parts of Alaska. He accused the Biden administration of lacking sufficient urgency. And he called China’s decision to fly a balloon over the country “a crisis.”
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