President Joe Biden, under fire from some lawmakers, said he did not view a Chinese spy balloon that transited the United States before it was shot down in the Atlantic Ocean to have been a major security breach
An undated U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation handout photo taken aboard the USS Carter Hull off South Carolina shows FBI Special Agents assigned to the bureau’s Evidence Response Team ready to process material recovered from the high-altitude Chinese balloon that was shot down by a U.S. military jet off the coast of South Carolina, in this image released by the FBI in Washington, U.S. February 9, 2023.
Biden, who has sought to maintain communications with China and not allow tensions with Beijing to get out of control, said in a Noticias Telemundo interview that he did not regret shooting down the balloon sooner. "It's not a major breach," Biden said. "I mean, look, it's totally … it's a violation of international law. It's our airspace. And once it comes into our space, we can do what we want with it."
He said U.S. military officials were worried that by shooting it down over land, the balloon and its parts could drop into a populated area. "This thing was gigantic. What happened if it came down and hit a school in a rural area? What happened if it came down? So I told them as soon as they could shoot it down, shoot it down. They made a wise decision. They shot it down over water, they're recovering most of the parts, and they're good," he said.
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