Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday revealed that the U.S. assesses the alleged Chinese spy balloon shot down over the weekend was part of an expansive surveillance program aimed at gathering intelligence from targets around the globe.
Blinken stressed that the U.S. was still uncovering more as efforts to recover and analyze wreckage from the balloon play out.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that members of the alliance in Europe had observed "increased intelligence activities" carried out by Beijing on the continent, including the use of balloons.A senior official told Raddatz that the surveillance balloons are operated by a unit within China's People's Liberation Army called "the Reconnaissance Bureau," which is also involved in the country's extensive satellite network.
"It doesn't matter on one level which individuals may or may not have been responsible," Blinken said. "The fact is China engaged in this irresponsible action."
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