Straight Line of the Day: What Is a Chinese Balloon Doing Over the United States?

What Is a Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Doing Above the US?
wishtv.com | Feb 3, 2023 | Brad Lendon, CNN

(CNN) — News that the Pentagon is monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in the skies over the continental United States raises a series of questions — not least among them, what exactly it might be doing.

US officials have said the flight path of the balloon, first spotted over Montana on Thursday, could potentially take it over a “number of sensitive sites” and say they are taking steps to “protect against foreign intelligence collection.”

Straight Line of the Day: What is a Chinese balloon doing over the United States?

36 Comments

  1. I don’t know, but in two hours, it will be hungry for more surveillance.

    Maybe Brandon didn’t send the classified documents he agreed to send concerning Montana, so they have to come do the work themselves.

  2. Escaped from the Whoopi Goldberg Shaped Balloons factory.

    It’s the last of the pre-Clinton administration spaceships, still on course but weeks behind schedule.

    Chinese New Year carnival prize: shoot the balloon, win fentanyl for the rest of your life.

  3. Biden Administration Tried To Hide Chinese Spy Balloon From American Public
    By Jon Levine
    February 4, 2023

    President Biden and his administration knew for nearly a week that a Chinese spy balloon was hovering in U.S. airspace — but kept the incursion secret, fearing it would derail Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

    Republicans expressed “outrage” over the president’s refusal to act.

    “Communist China’s surveillance balloon violates international law and threatens our homeland,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island) told The Post.

    “It’s an outrage that the Biden Administration spotted this balloon days ago as it was flying over the Aleutian Islands and did nothing about it,” she said. “The president has not even made a comment about this unacceptable act of aggression by the CCP.”

    The politics of the looming 2024 presidential election also played a role in Biden’s actions, sources told Bloomberg, with the fraught US-China relationship expected to be a central foreign policy issue.

    https://nypost.com/2023/02/04/biden-administration-tried-to-hide-chinese-spy-balloon-from-american-public/

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