Inside Biden’s decision to ‘take care of’ the Chinese spy balloon that triggered a diplomatic crisis

Photo caption: The suspected Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, U.S. February 4, 2023. Photo credit: Reuters / Randall Hill. Article by Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly, Natasha Bertrand, Pete Muntean and Oren Liebermann. CNN – updated February 5, 2023.

Washington (CNN) — When President Joe Biden learned a likely Chinese spy balloon was drifting through the stratosphere 60,000 feet above Montana, his first inclination was to take it down. By then, however, it was both too early and too late. After flying over swaths of sparsely populated land, it was now projected to keep drifting over American cities and towns. The debris from the balloon could endanger lives on the ground, his top military brass told him. […]

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