Republican congressmen call for shooting down China's spy balloon: "Trump would not have tolerated this"

MADRID, 3 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Republican Party congressmen have criticized the Biden Administration for its response to the discovery of a Chinese spy balloon over US territory, calling on the White House to shoot it down.

"Biden should bring down the immediate wooden Chinese spy balloon. President Trump would never have tolerated this," Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said in a message on the social network Twitter.

According to the legislator, under the Biden Administration, a multitude of things are happening that former President Donald Trump would not have tolerated, listing the US abandonment of Afghanistan, or the alleged lack of security on the border.

Along the same lines, Republican Senator Tom Cotton has spoken, demanding that Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, cancel his imminent trip to China, where he will meet his counterpart in Beijing.

"Secretary Blinken should cancel his trip to China. And President Biden must answer why he has not secured US airspace," Cotton stressed, also on the Twitter social network.

The Republican requests come after the Pentagon reported that the US military has been tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon flying over continental US airspace in recent days.

"The United States has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States at this time," Pentagon spokesman General Pat Ryder said Thursday.

Ryder has also specified that the balloon "does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground" while indicating that "it is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic", although it has not specified where it would be. , as reported by CNN.