U.S. President Joe Biden ordered fighter jets to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon on Saturday. The balloon passed over several sensitive U.S. military sites on its trek across the country.
Kirby appeared to confirm this Monday, telling reporters that the three breaches were only discovered after Trump left office.
"The presence of propellers does not mean that you don't still have limited maneuverability," said Kirby, adding that the propellers were on the top of the balloon. Still, he said, "it has the capability to loiter, and to introduce some limited maneuvers." The decision to shoot down the balloon was "unacceptable and irresponsible," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswomanShe insisted that the military surveillance balloon was merely "a civilian airship used for meteorological and other research purposes," and she claimed that shooting it down violated Chinese sovereignty.
The U.S. military was still gathering debris from the balloon Monday in shallow waters off the Carolina coast, he added. The balloon incident has strained the already fragile U.S.-China relationship, weakened in recent years by Beijing's territorial expansion in the South China Sea and its aggressive effort to control Taiwan.
A briefing for the rest of the Senate will take place on Feb. 15, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced at a Sunday news conference.
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