According to U.S. officials, Chinese balloons crossed over the U.S. at least three times during the Trump administration and at least one other time earlier in the Biden administration.
, the head of NORAD and the officer responsible for domestic air threats.
U.S. officials have not said precisely when or where those balloon incursions took place, or how the intelligence community was able to discover them in retrospect.U.S. officials say those incursions were brief — unlike the most recent one, which lasted for a week. U.S. officials say the Chinese motive remains unclear. The U.S. believes Chinese satellites have already acquired the same, or very similar information.
The clear answer is that it sparked a partisan feud in the U.S. Republicans are attacking President Biden for not shooting down the balloon sooner, while most Democrats are defending the president for taking a cautious, measured approach.
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