China's spy balloon was a test the US 'played right into,' says former Special Ops Analyst

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 February 5, 2023 10:21am EST
China's spy balloon was a test the US 'played right into,' says former Special Ops Analyst
Brett Velicovich and Gordan Chang told 'Fox & Friends Weekend' that China was sending a message to the world: 'Abandon the US'
By Fox News Staff | Fox News

    Former Special Operations Intel Analyst Brett Velicovich and Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow Gordon Chang joined ‘Fox & Friends Weekend,’ Sunday, to discuss the shooting down of the Chinese spy balloon floating in U.S. airspace and the Biden administration's handling of it.  Both Velicovich and Chang explained how the spy balloon was a ‘test’ by the Chinese Communist Party to demonstrate the weakness of the United States.

BRETT VELICOVICH: …Why does it take an uproar from the public before the administration is going to take decisive action? I mean, this was a test and we played right into the Chinese long-term strategy of publicly highlighting how weak our response is. They wanted us to find this. The intent of this balloon was so much more than just surveillance. It was about instilling a sense of fear. It was about showing our defenses are vulnerable and the way this administration responded, China's government has proven just how vulnerable we really are.

GORDON CHANG: …What Xi Jinping, the Chinese ruler, was doing, was saying you don't control your own airspace, and what he was also saying to the rest of the world is that the United States is incapable of defending itself. That has been a main propaganda narrative about the US for more than two years. This essentially started with the Biden administration, where the Chinese were saying, you can't deter us, you can't talk to us from a position of strength and your military doesn't work very well. So I think that that's absolutely right that Brett [Velicovich] talks about, it was an intimidation, and it certainly was a message to the rest of the world: Abandon the US, work with China.

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Biden wanted to speak with China's Xi after U.S. shot down surveillance balloon
Top national security advisers talked the president out of making a call, arguing the Chinese leader was too angry and it could “look like Biden is pleading for talks.”
June 16, 2023, 6:30 AM EDT
By Courtney Kube and Carol E. Lee

President Joe Biden wanted to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the days after the U.S. military shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina — even saying publicly that he expected to do so — but his top national security advisers talked him out of it, according to two senior administration officials and one former senior U.S. official familiar with the discussions.

Biden believed his relationship with Xi could help tamp down the newly escalated tensions with Beijing if he had the opportunity to speak directly and smooth things over, the officials said. But the president’s advisers made the case to him that it was not the right time for a leader-to-leader conversation, the officials said. Instead, Biden’s advisers told him, the best course of action was to begin outreach to Beijing with lower or midlevel officials, and work the way up to the top, according to the officials. ... NBC News

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CHINESE SPY BALLOON: We're now learning that President Biden was desperate to talk to Chinese President Xi after the spy balloon completed its mission and he ordered its destruction. Biden wanted to apologize but Jake Sullivan vetoed the call.

[DefiantMassRINO]

After 9/11, any unindentified airborne object should be shot down immediately.  End of story.

[Kamaji]

After 9/11, any unindentified airborne object should be shot down immediately.  End of story.