What Have Russia And China Learned From Testing US Defenses

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Feb. 5, 2023. Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Thompson  

Real Clear Defense: What Russia and China Have Learned From Testing U.S. Defenses 

While the Chinese spy balloon fell into the Atlantic, concerns remain about how and why it appeared undetected, and what are the takeaways from the handling of this situation. We now know this wasn’t an isolated incidence, but rather part of a chain of events. 

The same day, January 28th, the U.S. Air Force spotted the spy balloon making its way inwards from Alaska, where it entered the extreme west of the U.S. near the Aleutian islands, it briefly drifted into Canadian airspace, returning inland on January 31st. Later, South American authorities confirmed another spy balloon hovering and moving overhead. Only a few days prior to the invasion of the Chinese spy balloons into the Western Hemisphere’s airspace, the U.S. Coast Guard caught a Russian spy ship gathering intelligence near Hawaii. While the media focused on one spy ship, the Coast Guard released photos of several. Far from being mysterious ghost ships materializing out of thin air, these ships had been tracked for weeks while changing course and making their way to the U.S., where they then spent more weeks doing what they do best. 

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WNU Editor: I do not know if China and Russia working together to test US defenses as the above post speculates. But I do know that Russia and China are finding they have a lot of common ground, and one of them is to view the U.S. as a hostile adversary.

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