offer that satellites and other techniques might not. it can be hard to distinguish where a balloon is coming from. for example, a satellite or a drone, you could say it s coming from x country s military, but with a balloon, it s more benign. and so beijing tried to say that it was being used for meteorological purposes. a bit of deniability about what they re really up to, you mean? what do we know about the chinese balloon programme, then? so, we know that they have been doing this throughout the world, that a lot of these are connected. and this instance with the united states has made the us at least look into the programme more. and so we ve gathered information that this has been going on for a while. and do we know if other countries have spy balloon programmes as well? yes. i mean, the united states has one. ok. so, that s a prime example. the united states has balloons off
signals, which means that could be anything from cellphone communication and other types of data, because they were flying over an intercontinental ballistic missile site, over montana, which the us military typically tries to protect. people at first thought, why balloons? but i guess your point is that there are things balloons offer that satellites and other techniques might not. it can be hard to distinguish where a balloon is coming from. for example, a satellite or a drone, you could say it s coming from x country s military, but with a balloon, it s more benign. and so beijing tried to say that it was being used for meteorological purposes. a bit of deniability about what they re really up to, you mean? what do we know about the chinese balloon programme, then? so we know that they have been doing this throughout the world, that a lot of these are connected. and this instance with the united states has made
words from mr lincoln, warning china against incursions into us airspace, but is this likely to deter beijing? i us airspace, but is this likely to deter beijing? to deter bei ing? i think it is kind of a to deter beijing? i think it is kind of a pattern, to deter beijing? i think it is kind of a pattern, that - to deter beijing? i think it is i kind of a pattern, that besides balloon we see that china has been dispersing for example fishing boats in the south china sea, with regard to its territorial dispute with its labour in the contested territory, so it has kind of been a pattern that china used this kind of apparently less threatening kind of vessels or means or equipment to expand its actions and influence and freedom of movement, so this kind of balloon programme, as the us has now found out that china has kind of an elaborate balloon programme for surveillance and spying, and i don t think china will cancel it. maybe it will be more cautious in sending a balloon into the
dispute with its labour in the contested territory, so it has kind of been a pattern that china used this kind of apparently less threatening kind of vessels or means or equipment to expand its actions and influence and freedom of movement, so this kind of balloon programme, as the us has now found out that china has kind of an elaborate balloon programme for surveillance and spying, and i don t think china will cancel it. maybe it will be more cautious in sending a balloon into us skies, but i would believe that china will continue to do it over the territorial space, air space of other countries, if they have been doing it for a while. it is important to zoom out here and look at the bigger picture, because of course the us aligned with europe and its nato allies, in particular when it comes to what we mentioned in the introduction, russia and its invasion of ukraine.
boats in the south china sea, with regard to its territorial dispute with its labour in the contested territory, so it has kind of been a pattern that china used this kind of apparently less threatening kind of vessels or means or equipment to expand its actions and influence and freedom of movement, so this kind of balloon programme, as the us has now found out that china has kind of an elaborate balloon programme for surveillance and spying, and i don t think china will cancel it. maybe it will be more cautious in sending a balloon into the us skies, but i would believe that china will continue to do it over the territorial space, air space of other countries, if they have been doing it for a while. it is important to zoom out here and look at the bigger picture, because of course the us aligned with europe and its nato allies, in particular when it comes to what we mentioned in the introduction, russia and its invasion of ukraine.