U.S. military leaders may develop a high-altitude surveillance balloon program, a top Air Force general said, as the Biden administration dismissed allegations from China.
“We're looking at experimenting in that space,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said Monday during a Center for a New American Security event. “We haven't done any of that yet.”
That allegation received no credence from Japan or South Korea, as senior officials from both countries endorsed the U.S. denial following a meeting in Washington with Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. “Our view is very clearly that international law delimits what can or cannot be done in airspace ... and what the Chinese have been doing is a clear violation,” American Enterprise Institute senior Zack Cooper told the Washington Examiner."What the Chinese have been doing is a clear violation, and, I think obviously, like during the Cold War, we flew U-2s and SR-71s and things of that sort, but that was before we had the capability to do much of that collection with satellites.
Grynkewich floated the possibility of deploying surveillance balloons while discussing the need to reinforce existing surveillance capabilities.
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