The U.S. has the legal right to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon hovering over Montana, according to legal and national security experts reached by Fox News Digital.
Beacon Global Strategies managing director Michael Allen breaks down why House members should take a closer look at America's relationship with China on 'Fox News Live.'is well within its authority to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon that floated over Alaska and was spotted over Montana late this week, according to national security and legal experts.
Map shows approximate path of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon over Montana, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. James Andrew Lewis, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Strategic Technologies Program, said that while the exact boundaries for national airspace can get"fuzzy" at high altitudes, the Chinese balloon is well within U.S. airspace.
Ilan Berman, senior vice president ot the American Foreign Policy Council, said it's likely that the Biden administration is citing the possibility of debris to avoid causing an incident with China.Victoria Coates, a senior research fellow for international affairs and security at the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, said that China has said that it is building these surveillance balloons and is most likely testing the U.S. to see what kind of reaction it gets with the intrusion.
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