A day after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the U.S. military had to shut down communications and movements last week as the China spy balloon flew over strategic military bases during its week-long flyover of the United States from Alaska to South Carolina before being shot down just offshore, Joe Biden said it was “not a major breach.”
Biden made the comment during an interview with Noticias Telemundo by reporter Julio Vaqueiro taped earlier Thursday in Tampa, Florida.
Julio Vaqueiro: And wasn’t it a major security breach for the United States, just the fact that the balloon came into the airspace?
President Biden: No. pic.twitter.com/xHOHTNUn7P
— Matt Viser (@mviser) February 9, 2023
Interview excerpt with English subtitles via Fox:
From Telemundo!
Joe Biden tells interviewer that the Chinese Spy Balloon invading U.S. air space, traveling the whole U.S., stealing our secrets, is not “ a major breach”! Kick this traitor out of the White House! pic.twitter.com/76axDjWPXI— Bean (@Supercarcat13) February 10, 2023
Full interview:
The House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution (419-0) on Thursday condemning China for its “brazen violation of United States sovereignty.”