Biden Says Spy Balloon Raises Questions About Where US Can Still Work With China
President Joe Biden said China’s decision to fly a high-altitude balloon over the United States raises a question of where we can still work with China and where the two countries will be opposed.
U.S. Air Force fighter jets shot the balloon down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday after it had flown across much of the United States. The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the U.S. decision to shoot down the balloon, insisting it had been “a civilian airship used for meteorological and other research purposes” and had simply strayed off course by the weather and had limited self-steering capability to avoid crossing over U.S. airspace….