Usa news: President Joe Biden was first briefed on Tuesday about a Chinese spy balloon drifting over the United States, the same day a White House spokesman talked to reporters about the importance of improving engagement with the Chinese.
Three days later, Secretary of State Antony Blinken scrapped a trip to China because of the balloon.
Among the many lingering questions is why the balloon, which the Chinese maintain is a “civilian airship” used mostly for weather research that was blown off course, was in U.S. airspace – and why now.
Beijing is unlikely to gather more information from the balloon than it can learn from the satellites both countries use to spy on each other. And an airship as large as two buses was not going to go undetected.
