China Balloon A Layered Scandal | RealClearPolitics
First, if any spy balloon from China really floated over the United States during Trump s time and not one appointee was briefed, do we have an intelligence deep state which is either pro-China or which so feared Trump s penchant for action that they withheld that? Exactly who knew what, when, and said nothing?
Second, if the balloons were over the U.S. under Trump, and NORAD or the intelligence community did not see them in real time, why not? That is a major intelligence failure. How did that happen? Third, either way and regardless of which scandal is worse the Chinese spy balloon in U.S. airspace should have immediately been brought down. Would we wait on a fighter, and say debris worried us?
China has learned a key lesson, and it cannot be unlearned. Biden will hesitate, deflect, do almost anything to avoid confrontation with China, even allow penetration of U.S. airspace. None of this will make Taiwan feel good, or Japan, Australia, the Philippines or any U.S. ally.
Communist China s deliberate penetration of U.S. airspace is not a non-event, not inconsequential, not something to pretend did not happen. And it should have instantly triggered a shootdown.
Who will be held accountable for this fiasco? What will China do next? This is not a small error, passing oversight, or victory nor was the disastrous U.S. exit from Afghanistan. This is another layered scandal.
Seems to me it was a probe and the US did not cover itself in glory responding. It goes downhill from there.