as much neil: you raise an excellent point here. then the issue becomes china saying, we notice two balloons over tibet and a city in our country. this is ten times we ve seen that the last year. so you get a sense that might up the ante. we re getting a sense that they re returning the salvo with our boycotting and the targeting and sanctions of six technology chinese company. they re going after raytheon and lockheed-martin. you can see how this gets out of control, right? let s take a deep breath. clearly there s an issue with the surveillance balloons. we need to also understand that surveillance is going on 2002 24, 365. we ll find out more about the chinese balloon. i don t know about the bottle
Suspected spy balloons prompt calls for increased co-operation between the two nations, with Japan changing military engagement rules to shoot down unmanned aircraft
it s seen a resurgence because it s relatively cheap and can hover for a long time and harder to detect but clear from research china has a growing interest in this and sees it as the next frontier for great power rivalry. selina, thank you so much. so much amazing detail and investigations there in her reporting, so let s go to john bolton, former national security adviser under former president trump briefed tomorrow by the biden administration on these chinese surveillance balloons. so, ambassador boelter, you heard selina wang s piece about these six companies at the heart of china s, you know, surveillance balloon ambitions. they ve been touting this program on state media as you saw. how concerned are you about what we re seeing from beijing right now? well, i m very concerned across the board, certainly the balloon surveillance issue is in the forefront of the news, but chinese efforts across the board
the company, they show the trajectory of an unmanned airship flying around the world. he says, look, this is the united states. beijing claims the balloon that intruded u.s. airspace earlier this month was only for civilian research purposes but u.s. intelligence officials claim the balloon is part of a fleet of chinese surveillance balloons. the general manager of the beijing base balloon company told state media in 2015 that the balloons can be used for military purposes, if they carry telecommunication or surveillance equipment on board. scientists found a group, mchlthsat, a balloonmaker on the blacklist. in this 2017 state 450ed ya or the on msat, the anchor touts that these airships can carry a large number of detectors and communication equipment for surveillance reconnaissance for military and civilian use.
several of the factory in recent years have been torn down. which edon t know if it has anything to do with the six blacklisted companies, but beijing s company has flown over the u.s. before according to state media. in this 2019 state media video, pointing to a computer screen showing the trajectory of an unmanned air ship flying around the world. he says look, this is the united states. beijing claims the balloon that intruded u.s. airspace this month was only for civilian purposes. but u.s. intelligence officials claim the balloon is part of a fleet of chinese surveillance balloons. the general manager over the balloon company told state media in 2015 that the balloons can be used for military purposes, if they carry telecommunications or surveillance equipment on board. another scientist found it met