Former Trump White House national security adviser John Bolton will receive a briefing from the Biden administration about suspected Chinese spy balloons entering U.S. airspace.
The briefing follows defense officials claiming similar objects entered the United States under former President Donald Trump. Bolton and other Trump officials have said they were not aware of any incursions by China while they were in office. The White House confirmed on Feb. 6 that briefings would occur between the Trump and Biden administrations but did not specify which officials from the Trump administration received the invitations.
Incursions reportedly occurred"at least three times" during the Trump administration and one additional time at the beginning of the Biden administration. However, the reported incidents under Trump were for shorter periods of time than the balloon that entered North American airspace on Jan. 28 over the Alaskan Aleutian Islands before being shot down on the afternoon of Feb. 4 off the coast of South Carolina.
"We detected it, we tracked it, and we have been carefully studying it to learn as much as we can," Kirby said."I can say definitively that I was not aware of that ever happening," former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller told the Washington Examiner.
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