It is a huge swath of air space that includes the airspace over territorial waters.

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As the Senator from Alaska would tell us all, Alaskan airspace is American airspace, period.

This was a serious and blatant attempt by the Chinese to collect valuable data.

Well, I have got to tell you, I think they would not hesitate if we violated their territorial airspace, to disable, and take down our surveillance platform.

It seems to me when you have a craft that is violating international airspace, and you have sensitive military installations... we should treat it the same.

I would associate myself with everything that you just said.

But do you think if we had an American surveillance balloon going over sensitive Chinese Military sites; that the Chinese Government would have, for a minute, hesitated before taking it down?

Then what explains that delay, days of delay?

The best way to avoid conflict with China is for President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party to have no doubt regarding the resolve of the U.S. Government to defend our territory and our interests.

Alaska is part of the United States, full stop.

It defies belief that there was not a single opportunity to safely shoot down this spy balloon prior to the Coast of South Carolina.

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