After China and Russia flew strategic bombers near Alaska airspace this week, lawmakers in Congress began expressing new concerns that the military exercises were a stark escalation in the standoff between the adversary countries and the United States.
“This is a bomber task force … they’ve never done that,” Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska told NOTUS. He said the military exercises were “provocative” and “an escalation” toward the U.S.
He showed NOTUS a picture of a Chinese aircraft that flew close to Alaska airspace, and he noted the danger that those aircraft presented. “That’s a nuclear bomber,” he said.