Yesterday, the ongoing saga of the Chinese spy balloon came to a dramatic end, courtesy of an AIM-9X air-to-air missile fired from an F-22 Raptor. The shootdown finally took place after America watche.
Yesterday, the ongoing saga of the Chinese spy balloon came to a dramatic end, courtesy of an AIM-9X air-to-air missile fired from an F-22 Raptor. The shootdown finally took place after America watched the balloon moseying along in our airspace for days on end and after the Biden administration tried to hide the information from the public for as much as a month. One might imagine that Beijing might have apologized (or at least let the matter drop) after being caught with their hand so deep in the cookie jar, but that’s not the case. Xi Jinping’s people not only continued to complain about the destruction of their property, but they doubled down last night, saying that they now have a “right to respond further” and called the destruction of the balloon an “excessive reaction.” Something tells me they don’t really understand the psyche of the American people. (NY Post)
China is also continuing to insist that the balloon was a “civilian aircraft” intended to collect meteorological data and that it had simply “blown off course.
