Last week, the Pentagon confirmed that a mysterious white device, about three bus lengths, was floating over Montana and heading east over the continental United States.
Then Biden waited. And waited. And waited some more. Then decided not to shoot it down.
But in a brazen act of defiance, Secretary of State Antony Blinken got steaming mad and canceled his diplomatic trip to China to meet with President Xi Jinping.
A move that likely didn’t leave China shaking in its proverbial boots.
The balloon was finally shot down on February 4th off the coast of South Carolina —and Americans have learned two absolutely insane things since.
Firstly, the China spy balloon is part of a military fleet that is capable of capturing communications across five continents. According to Just The News, “the balloon had multiple antennas built in a manner that were ‘likely capable of collecting and geo-locating communications.’”
Feeling good about that? Neither are we.
“The U.S. government said it is ‘confident’ the company that produced the balloon was directly tied to the People’s Liberation Army, but it did not name the company. Videos on the company’s website show balloons that apparently flew over the U.S. and other nations. More than 40 countries have had the Chinese-made balloons fly over, the State Department said,” according to Just The News.
Feeling even worse? So are we.
But the story gets even stranger —China wants the balloon back!
According to a report from The New York Post, a high-ranking Chinese diplomat is calling for the return of the spy device, claiming that Americans have been “dishonest” in our representation of the conflict.
Dishonest? It was a spy balloon that China admitted belonged to them. What are we missing?
“If a person picks up something on the street and knows who the owner is, he should return it to the owner,” China’s ambassador to France Lu Shaye said during a Monday interview with the French channel LCI.
How about this, Mr, Lu: if we find something in our skies that violates our national airspace and we shoot it down, we have every right to strip it for parts, reverse engineer it, and figure out what exactly you’re doing poking around in our business.
Sound fair?
