The US Federal Police FBI has released new photos of the investigation into the suspected spy balloon from China. The recordings show, among other things, how employees of the authority search the sea for wreckage off the coast of the state of South Carolina. The US military shot down the balloon there last Sunday.
The search area is a “large-scale scene,” Eric Pokorak, who is involved in the analysis of the balloon’s remains, said at a news conference Thursday. So far, mainly parts of the balloon’s hood, some cables and only small parts of the electronics have been found. The weather may also affect the collection and transport of other parts in the coming days.
The authority stressed that there is no information or evidence to contradict previous statements made by other US authorities about the balloon. The US government accuses China of spying on military installations. Beijing, on the other hand, spoke of a civilian research balloon, primarily for meteorological purposes. This was, of course, launching an “overreaction”.
US President Joe Biden says China has violated international law by flying into US airspace. The incident does not pose a major security risk, but it is “absolutely a violation of international law — it’s our airspace,” Biden said in an interview with Telemundo (local time) on Thursday. Referring to the launch of the balloon, he added: “And once it got into our airspace, we could do whatever we wanted with it.”
A senior US State Department official also said on Thursday that China had attacked 40 countries on five continents with a fleet of spy balloons: “We know that China used these balloons for surveillance,” he stressed in Washington.
The equipment in the balloon shot down off the US coast was “clearly used for intelligence monitoring”. China, in turn, accused the US government of waging an “information war” over the persistent allegations of espionage.
(t-online, dpa)
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