Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says China has more to answer for as its spy balloon drifts across America.
| Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says the Chinese Communist Party has questions to answer after one of its surveillance balloons that is still lingering over the skies of America lead US Secretary of StateDescribed by the Pentagon as a sophisticated Chinese surveillance tool flying over parts of the US such as Montana, which hosts nuclear silos, the balloon has set Washington politics alight as officials debate whether to shoot it down before it drifts further east across the country.
He said he would monitor the situation carefully but that it was, “obviously, an issue being managed between the US and China”, Mr Marles said.that Chinese spy balloons had been observed in Hawaii last year and other times in the Pacific. But Republican politicians have leapt at the administration’s response insisting the balloon, which is the size of three buses, be captured immediately.Idaho Republican Senator and ranking member of the Senate Foreign relations committee Jim Risch said in a tweet: “The Biden Administration needs to remove it from US airspace as soon as possible.”
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