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I think [Chinese officials are] happy about [their balloon getting so far] because they got a lot of intelligence that they can't get from their satellites. Remember, this balloon was 60,000 ft. A satellite in low-Earth orbit has to be in space, which means it's about 400,000 ft. minimum, so there's a lot that China learned from this, but also, they saw that we did not take it out when it first entered our airspace, which was about a week ago in Alaska, and it traversed uninhabited territory where we could have easily shot it down and not affected anybody or put anyone in jeopardy on the ground. And the same goes for Canada. Once it left Alaska, it went through Canada, also sparsely in uninhabited areas. We could have taken it down there as well.