The Chinese balloon found hovering above Montana is the latest development in U.S. – China relations. Friday, the CCP’s foreign ministry spokesperson released the following statement:
The airship is from China. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course. The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into US airspace due to force majeure. The Chinese side will continue communicating with the US side and properly handle this unexpected situation caused by force majeure.
This is still a developing story, but there is a bigger picture to understand here.
The relations between the U.S. and China have been drastically different under Biden compared to President Trump.
Trump infamously started a trade war with China after what he viewed as unfair trade agreements from previous U.S. presidential administrations, in addition to intellectual property theft. Additionally, Trump’s expansion of U.S.-Taiwan relations directly went against China’s “One China Policy.”
Trump’s actions showed that the USA was strong, and bold enough to do what it felt was right instead of acting in fear of the CCP. It signaled to not only China, but the world that his version of America would be different, and that the Trump Administration was truly putting America First.
Since Joe Biden took office in January of 2021, America has become undeniably weaker on the world stage. The first major opening for other countries to begin pushing the limits of the United States, was the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Last November, it was revealed the CCP was operating a “police station” in New York City. On November 14th 2022, President Xi of China met with Biden at the G20 summit in Bali. In a stark contrast from the previous administration, Joe Biden revealed the U.S. does NOT support Taiwan independence. This signaled that under the Biden Administration, America would be submissive to China.
With that, you get a “weather balloon” (so they say) making its way into U.S. air space. A senior defense official revealed the U.S. has “very high confidence” that the balloon was flying over sensitive U.S. sites to collect information. In other words, not an innocently lost weather balloon. These conflicting reports illustrate once more the lack of trust between the two countries. At the very least, China did this as an intimidation tactic to the United States, which shows the world who has the upper hand. The more likely motive behind this will be revealed in time.
The smartest solution would be to shoot down or retrieve the balloon to avoid any further concerns that the American people may have. Unfortunately, it was announced that would not happen, furthering the world’s current view of the United States as weak.
This is the latest example of weakness and vulnerability from the United States on the world stage under Joe Biden. An innocent weather balloon? Or a foreshadowing threat of things to come? America needs strong leadership now more than ever. Pray that we get it, and soon.
Yesterday, on the Sean Hannity radio show, a former Air Force pilot from the 60’s/70’s called in to say that, even back as far as the 60’s they had sophisticated technical equipment on their spy planes that could easily find (using Infared imaging) nuclear missile silo’s, flying from 30,000 feet. So just imagine what type of technological equipment could have been on that balloon, with 50 years of Technolgy advances since then. The CCP has an extremely accurate map of the locations of all our nuclear missile silo’s from Montana to South Carolina. THANKS A LOT BRANDON! Impeach or replace NOW for High Treason.
It had to be deployed from somewhere in China and traveled across the Pacific Ocean. It had to have been over Canada before suddenly “appearing” over Montana. No one saw this coming? The US and Canada just ignored it until it could no longer be possibly ignored? BS. The Biden administration colluded with China to allow this.
Oh, it was seen and tracked over Alaska and Canada. So one can only wonder what the Biden administration was up to until it was announced over Montana.
You’re dreaming.
DICTATOR Beijing biden Released a
High Level TERRORIST out of GITMO. Just like obama did so they can go back Killing AMERICANS.
I see you can’t handle the TRUTH.
So instead of getting upset over the TRUTH. Why don’t you do your homework and except the TRUTH?
Either way, you don’t hurt my little feelings.
SUPER RUBBER CHICKEN biden waits 3 Days before shooting down Communist China SPY Balloon and 2 more still floating around the US.
Yet, he Releases 600,000 ILLEGAL ALIEN TERRORIST into our country WITHOUT Court Dates or Charges and NOT VACCINATED or VETTED.
MORE CRIMINALS with HIGHER CRIME and MORE Resources and Tax Dollars WASTED cause SUPER RUBBER CHICKEN doesn’t SECURE the BORDERS and he lets Communist China SPY Balloons fly all over country doing NOTHING but HIDING in the basement.
Dear antirepublican,
Flattery will get you nowhere.
Correction: Communist China SPY Balloon spent 8 Days over USA covering 4,000 miles before DICTATOR Beijing biden Finally had it shot down.
He was busy HIDING and Eating Ice Cream.
YOU don’t have TO continue to SUFFER from the EMBARRASSING symptoms of BIPOLAR disrder and pAraNOIA. GET help Now!
I bet you’re one of those “doctors” like jill Bet you’re a covid “expert too, eh???
Shoot it down and dispel any doubts.
Lol, we handled this Chinese spy balloon about as swiftly as Barney Fife pulling his pistol from his holster.
What a great analogy. At least Barney knows what the pistol is for.
I guarantee Barney would not have hesitated to SHOOT down that CCP Spy Balloon. And Andy would have helped him.
Well by now they already got the information they wanted.
Is it Bidens fear of China, or is it (fill in the blank)????
Just when you think it could possibly not get worse or more humiliating it does Is this to show the world that we are turning into dwarves?
Almost unbelievable, but seeing how the Biden administration has governed the past two years. It is not inconceiivable to me anymore that our government could be taken over by China or Russia in the future. I learned that the four branches of our military did not make their goals of enlistment of new recruits this year. All their thoughts are WOKE.
What a crock of BS! They think we will buy it? They are delusional.
How can we let this happen to us can’t trust our politics left and right
This a left thing, the opportunist in chief has the word.
The U.S.A. should never allow an adversaries “weather balloon,” or any other type of research flying machine to freely fly about our airspace or over our nation. I for one do not trust the CCP, and neither should our DOD. As for Joe Biden, he’s the worst POTUS in American history.
Yeah, trusting China is like trusting sleeping with a nest of rattle!
Possible EMP???
Please, let me be president for a day. I am so sick of biden and this administration’s weakness. A “civilian airship”? Give me a break; since when does anything happen in China that their government leaders don’t know about or didn’t command.
The fact that our government knew about it for days before it was reported to the public shows just how transparent they are. The second it was detected, China should have been forced to remove it “or else”. That “or else” means it would have been shot down or brought down and examined for content. Instead, they let it go where the CCP wanted it to go, doing who knows what sort of mischief.
The primary job of the president is to protect U.S. citizens. Biden has fallen short of the mark since the first day he arrived at the White House. Count on it: anything he does regarding China is in their favor. No doubt, another check will be coming his way, with a finder’s fee for Hunter.
Disgusted.
Its quite obvious, the balloon was intended as a Valentine gift for tRump. He loves dictators, just ask him, he has love letters from some of them. They should position it over Donald’ house and then pop it open, there will be lots of hearts, candy, and flowers for him. That should get his ego inflated.
Awww, Rich, now stop being so silly!
This is just a trial balloon to see how biden would react. What’s the CCP’s next move? The balloon wouldn’t have made it past the coast if Trump were president.
I agree. This is a trial balloon not a spy balloon.
I understand that we might not want to blow it up and drop its payload on farmer Brown’s chicken coop but I don’t see why we couldn’t just shoot a few holes in it or harpoon it with a small missile (minus a warhead) and monitor its progress as it slowly descends.
I’m not qualified to know for sure, but I think the balloon would explode quickly if holes were punched in the membrane at 60,000′. Still, I’ve heard that residents of Montana had agreed to let it be downed over their state. China keeps testing again and again; all the powers know biden has made the U.S. an easy target.
That is the reason he had to be gotten rid of Mice are petrified of men
Exactly how many aliases are you commenting under? “lol” every time gives it away, “Fat man”.
Thank goodness AMAC doesn’t practice censorship like the left or people of your ilk would not be able to make fools of themselves on a public forum for the entertainment of common-sense folks. The old/new verbiage of “you can’t fix stupid” certainly applies here. Thank you, Rich, for your one-man Moe, Larry, Curley, comment.
Well Andre, this is just the type of response I expected from Maga Republicans like you. The only fools here, are the ones like you who keep following a grifter and refuse to accept truths that don’t fit with your Trump mentality. You probably try to make fun of handicap and disabled people too. A typical Trump tactic. You got it right,,, you cant fix stupid…..exactly where people like you are at in your Maga cult life. Thank you for considering me a one-man show. Try to crawl out of your cult hole and rejoin society.
The babbling fool continues his stupid rant. You are beyond an idiot Rich!
Another MAGAT speaks garbage.
Shame on you … Rich is mentally unstable or perhaps a child that has snealed on access to the internet to post his immarurity.
Rich is also a troll. Why are you on here?
Is brain wash a handicap or disability or both?
Coming out in full force must be a MAGAT rally.
Glad to see that Trump is comfortably living inside your head. From your comments, it sounds as though you think all we think about is Trump. But you’d be wrong, as usual.
Oh Kim, we have had that response before, you people get trigger words or phrases and you constantly use them cause you have nothing else. Before long we will be hearing more from you MAGA people about the border again,,, now that Biden has proven you wrong on everything else. But good try!!
“Wrong” on what?
Rich– It appears that you are in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Nobody here will listen to you. Watching “The View” seems like your type of media of misinformation place.
We should definitely not shoot down this balloon.
Rather, send up a plane with a hook on it and fly it to a soft landing down below where the balloon can be examined, live on tv.
That will allow the American public to gauge both the Chinese and American leaderships for itself as opposed to propaganda from either.
The problem is it’s at 60000 feet, above the operation altitude of our planes.
Exactly. It’s also about 1,500 ft tall x 800 ft wide and lugging around solar arrays/sensors the size of busses. Regardless, it sure pissed off Americans that it was allowed to float around our country. It was a weak response by our leadership, even though we analyzed it thoroughly as it floated around. Taking it down off the west coast could have been a huge unifying moment for the American public. Instead, we look weak and confused.
Sounds like questionable accuracy in this analysis. Biden has said multiple times the US would engage militarily should China attack Taiwan. And since when are we suppose to be supporting Taiwan independence anyway? We are supposed to adhere to the one China policy we affirmed back in the 1970s.
The real scary part here is the military told sniffy to not shoot it down.
Impeach Biden, The Manchurian Candidate!
Biden … the Manchurian Can’r-remember-the-date!
More gibberish from the city of illiteracy.