Since the CCP has already infiltrated the U.S. government at the very highest levels, why would they need to pull a stupid stunt like this? How do we even know who it was who actually launched it anyway? It could have been anyone, balloons are not high tech. I call this third-party provocation by an unknown entity figuring on getting some kind of advantage out of provocation.
Like we know the intel
However the actions of the administration suggest something hinky and Blinken cancelled his trip to China…first planned by SecState in 15 years
The possible use of balloons for WMD attacks is NOT unknown to the defense and intel communities, even though their priorities now are wokeness, propaganda about Russia and the Ukraine War, and ….
AF officer theorized use of balloons 6 years ago
https://www.alpf.org/_files/ugd/70cf97_eea159b95ed541af921a4a0dcd4f492e.pdf