Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security, said that Washington received data on China’s intelligence capabilities as a result of observing the balloon’s movements. TASS.
“But we’ve already been able to obtain a lot of data on the capabilities and methods of conducting reconnaissance of this balloon because we tracked it in various ways as it moved over United States territory,” Sullivan said.
According to the official, officials offered to brief key representatives of the previous presidential administration about the exam, and also expressed their readiness to talk about all the information received.
On February 5, the US military shot down a Chinese balloon that had been hovering over US soil for several days. The Pentagon called the downed device a spy device, while China said the balloon was a civilian probe and ended up accidentally over the United States.
Previously at the White House declarationthat they would not return the wreckage of a dropped balloon to China.