Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Is ‘Maneuverable,’ Has Changed Direction At 60,000 Feet: Pentagon | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ryan Saavedra.

Publisher's Note: Following this noteworthy and infamous story regarding the Chinese Spy Balloon caper, an inarguable embarrassment for the feckless Biden Administration, will be this series of posts, an archival history, chronicling the Misinformational Misadventure that wholly embarrassed this leader of the Democratic Socialists' Authoritarian regime.

    The U.S. Department of Defense revealed Friday that the suspected Chinese spy balloon that is flying over the United States has the ability to maneuver and has changed direction at 60,000 feet.

    Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder would not say how the balloon could be maneuvered and refused to state if the communist Chinese government was in control of the balloon.

    Ryder also refused to state if President Joe Biden is even considering shooting down the balloon as it flies over U.S. soil.

    Ryder said that the balloon was "maneuverable" and that it the Pentagon assesses that "it will probably be over the United States for a few days."

    "We know that balloon has violated US airspace and international law - which is unacceptable. And we've conveyed this directly to the PRC on multiple levels," he told reporters Friday. "The fact is, we know that it's a surveillance balloon, and I'm not going to be able to be more specific than that."

    The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed in a statement that the balloon was a "civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological purposes."

    The statement claimed that the balloon "deviated far from its planned course." The distance from China to Montana is approximately 5,000 miles.

    A U.S. official told The New York Times that the spy balloon traveled from China to Alaska's Aleutian Islands then to Canada before ending up over Montana.

    An official told CNN that the spy balloon has flown over "a number of sensitive sites" in the U.S. but claimed that it did not present a serious intelligence gathering risk.

    "Clearly they're trying to fly this - this balloon over sensitive sites ... to collect information," a U.S. official said on Thursday.

    Biden administration officials claimed that they looked at whether there were options to shoot down the balloon but claimed that they did not feel comfortable doing so because it could cause damage to civilians when it hits the ground.

    Professor Steve Tsang, the director of the China Institute at the SOAS University of London, said that China's motive in sending the balloon to the U.S. is more "symbolic value, showing that the Chinese are able to send something in the air to survey U.S. military installations."

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Among the many other lackluster performance standards by the Biden Administration - the most recent, allowing the Chinese Spy Balloon unfettered access to the skies above this Sovereign Republic - Joe Biden's foreign policy is considered by most true experts to be mediocre to abysmal at best. If one were to give a fair assessment of the quality of this apex duty of this Executive Branch: What would be your opinion of the Biden Administration's Foreign Policy initiatives and, or obvious faux pas?

  President Biden is a Foreign Policy expert of consummate skill just like his brother, Jim, and his son, Hunter.

  America's First Idiot President is corruptly committed to making the World far less safe, while surrendering OUR United States of America's sovereignty whenever, wherever possible.

  Mr. Biden is MY President because I pay close attention to only what rewards me, thus demanding as little sacrifice as is my nature to offer, or shrug.

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