{"id":9578,"date":"2023-02-07T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=9578"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:41:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:41:26","slug":"chinese-grey-zone-spy-balloons-over-the-american-heartland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/chinese-grey-zone-spy-balloons-over-the-american-heartland\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grey zone spy balloons over the American heartland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bizarrely, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/02\/asia\/us-china-spy-balloon-mission-intl-hnk-ml\/index.html\">Chinese have sent<\/a>&nbsp;a high-flying spy balloon deep into the American heartland. The logic is that such balloons fly more than 22.2 kilometres above the surface.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ags.gov.au\/legal-briefing-no-116\">Under international law<\/a>, a nation\u2019s territorial seas and the airspace above it extend to 12 nautical miles (22.2km). Accordingly, China\u2019s high-altitude balloons are arguably flying in international airspace. It\u2019s plausibly legal but also highlights the fact that if a balloon overflies a country below 22.2 kilometres altitude, that country\u2019s sovereignty has been infringed and the craft can be legally shot down. Both happened in this case over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High-flying balloons are very common. Some 800 small weather balloons are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.highaltitudescience.com\/pages\/intro-to-weather-balloons\">launched daily<\/a>&nbsp;and fly up to 40 kilometres altitude. The United States&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/cold-war-balloon-surveillance\">launched hundreds<\/a>&nbsp;of spy balloons over the Soviet Union in the 1950s. The Soviets grumbled that these were \u201cincompatible with normal relations between states\u201d, and they had a point. Some 90 per cent failed, and then came the development of spy satellites that were more capable, reliable and less provocative. Using balloons for long-range spy missions went&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airvectors.net\/avbloon_3.html\">out of fashion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Please click here to read the full &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/chinese-grey-zone-spy-balloons-over-american-heartland\">Chinese grey zone spy balloons over the American heartland<\/a>&#8221; article published at The Interpreter, written by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow, <strong>Dr Peter Layton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON\u00a0| Bizarrely, the&nbsp;Chinese have sent&nbsp;a high-flying spy balloon deep into the American heartland. The logic is that such balloons fly more than 22.2 kilometres above the surface.&nbsp;Under international law, a nation\u2019s territorial seas and the airspace above it extend to 12 nautical miles (22.2km). 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