GOP Lawmakers React to Chinese Rebuke of US Response to Spy Balloon

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), joined by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, speaks at a news conference on the ongoing Afghanistan evacuations, at the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 25, 2021 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said he would give a “very stern warning” to China’s Foreign Minister over its rebuke of the United States’ handling of a Chinese spy balloon that flew across the country in early February.

“I would send a very stern warning to him that we will not tolerate a spy balloon that’s committing espionage over the United States again,” McCaul said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Feb 19.