Oriana Skylar Mastro: "I will say that the United States and air defense is an extremely important and an extremely sensitive topic. airspace following the shooting down of the first balloon earlier this month? But then we would question why the Biden administration hasn't clarified that at this point."ĭid the United States change radar monitoring protocols over that area of U.S. "And so given that the Biden administration might have felt compelled to take some more aggressive action to clear that airspace, to show the American people that they have this under control, or it's possible that they are extremely dangerous items. But I do think the other objects, potentially the reaction could have been driven by the fact that the American people are now very focused on the idea that there are objects in the airspace that potentially the United States is not tracking and is not dealing with. The United States is concerned about these surveillance balloons largely because of national security. response is driven by domestic political reasons. Oriana Skylar Mastro: "My assessment of this, and I don't want to give too much sort of fodder to the Chinese who are trying to say that the U.S. On shooting down these surveillance balloons So, the fact that it's still unknown after so many days suggests to me that it must be some sort of diplomatically sensitive issue." But then it's confusing to me why, if the United States shot down, for example, some sort of Google platform, that Google wouldn't have come out and said something about it. They might also have their own high-altitude balloons. Just like commercial entities have their own satellites. "On the other hand, one of the alternative hypotheses is this could potentially be a commercial asset. So it's possible that this is something that is completely independent of the Chinese surveillance balloon. They were flying at a different altitude, much lower. On one hand, I can't quickly say that these are Chinese surveillance objects. Oriana Skylar Mastro: "I'm supposed to be an expert on these things, but there's a lot about these incidents that is really confusing. Tong Zhao, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Beijing. Jamey Jacob, director of the Unmanned Systems Research Institute at Oklahoma State. ( Shirk, chair of the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego and author of the new book, Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise. Author of The Costs of Conversation: Obstacle to Peace Talks in Wartime. Non-resident senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute. Oriana Skylar Mastro, fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Today, On Point: The U.S., China, and eyes in the sky. "These are things that are unacceptable."Ĭhina's spy balloon gives us a rare glimpse into spycraft between the U.S. But there are rules of engagement in international politics that in the realm of competition, keeps us all safe," Oriana Skylar Mastro says. airspace.īut the one that matters the most for now is the first and biggest: China’s spy balloon. Suddenly, the military is shooting down more foreign objects out of U.S. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) Biden congratulates fighter pilots for taking down a Chinese balloon off the east coast after it spent several days flying over the US.
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