President Joe 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, the NY Post reports.
Republicans expressed “outrage” over the president’s refusal to act right away.
“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. Team Biden became aware of the balloon on Jan. 28, Bloomberg reported, when it was spotted over Alaska.
no surprises – since Hunter and the “big guy” are getting multi $$$$$$$ from China………….
It’s the transparency of his administration that he boasted about.
You can’t hide something that everyone sees, which is why it was NOT a spy balloon but a chemical balloon from the Deep State that President Trump ordered to be shot down. That it was a spy balloon is the official narrative in order not to scare the public.
If anyone didn’t believe the level.of corruption in the white house….
The writing above the photograph above is not Chinese. It looks Indian.