House Unanimously Approves Resolution Condemning CCP for Spy Balloon

The House of Representatives on Feb. 9 overwhelmingly agreed to a resolution condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) use of a spy balloon over the United States.
The measure, introduced by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), passed on a 419–0 vote.
H. Res. 104 decries “the Chinese Communist Party’s use of a high-altitude surveillance balloon over United States territory as a brazen violation of United States sovereignty.”
“The Chinese Communist Party’s intelligence collection directed against the United States poses a threat to United States interests and security,” McCaul wrote in the measure.
Congress “condemns the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China’s] brazen violation of United States sovereignty [and] denounces the CCP’s efforts to deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns in violation of United States sovereignty,” the resolution continues….}

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