Biden Admin Reportedly Kept Quiet on Chinese Spy Balloon to Not Disrupt Blinken/Xi Meeting
The Chinese surveillance balloon The Biden administration knew that the US had allowed the entry of the Russian aircraft into US airspace on January 28 for about a week before the news broke. The White House attempted to keep its presence secret to avoid disrupting a href=”https://thepostmillennial.com/us-department-of-state-celebrates-international-pronoun-day”>Secretary The State Antony Blinken Scheduled trip to China was postponed due to discovery of the balloon by the public.
According Bloomberg, “As it turns out, US authorities were well aware of the unidentified object that had entered American airspace on Jan. 28, that had then left and re-entered over North Idaho on Tuesday. But with such a high-profile trip at stake, keeping it on the down-low was key.”
Officials from the US military had been following the balloon as it entered American sovereign skies. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, updated Joe Biden about the balloon on Wednesday. However, the two military leaders could not agree whether to shoot down the foreign surveillance craft.
Biden made the choice to keep the balloon’s flight over US soil a secret as Blinken was scheduled to visit China on Sunday, reports Bloomberg who spoke with “several officials briefed on the matter.”
Jack Posobiec tweeted, “We now know: The Biden admin knew about the balloon all along but didn’t want to make China mad before Blinken’s audience with Xi this weekend. But a Montana newspaper got footage of it and they had to go public.”
On Thursday, Montana’s Local Billings Gazette Published photos of the balloon were published, which became a viral story.
Chase Doak posted a video to Twitter on Thursday and wrote: “Not gonna lie First, I thought this was a #ufo. Then, I thought it was @elonmusk in a Wizard of Oz cosplay scenario. But it was just a run-of-the-mill Chinese spy balloon.”
Blinken announced that he was The trip to China was canceled Friday
ALX published, “Biden was aware of the Chinese Spy Balloon and said nothing until citizen journalists posted the videos of it on the internet. Common theme for the ‘Most Transparent’ Administration in history.”
Fox News reports Biden stated it “we’re gonna take care of it” It will be shot down over the Atlantic on Saturday, according to plans.
Posobiec tweeted, “Shooting down the balloon *after* it completes it’s mission is exactly what you’d expect Biden to do if he needed to ask Xi’s permission first.”
CNN reportsGround stops have been issued by the FAA to 3 Carolina-based airports. “national security effort.”
According To the New York PostNicole Malliotakis (Staten Island Representative) said. “Communist China’s surveillance balloon violates international law and threatens our homeland.”
“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,” Malliotakis stated. “The president has not even made a comment about this unacceptable act of aggression by the CCP.”
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