Do they even have technology that'll blow satellites out of orbit?
Yes, as do we. But there is no justification for destroying orbiting satellites in regard to a balloon in US airspace. Nor has China even threatened that. Someone in our government is making up weak-ass excuses to cover for their cowardly inaction.
My point is, if we cave now.... We'll never stop.
That's the gist of it. Through half a century in government, there is not a single instance where Joe Biden made the correct call when it comes to foreign policy. Not a single one.
I say drop that bubble with a drone when it is over an unpopulated area.
We should have dropped it the second China denied it was theirs. And we should have done it with a space-based laser just to show China what we are capable of. That way, they would have nothing to protest.