Commentary
President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech was notable for its glancing reference to the Chinese spy balloon that drifted over parts of Canada and the United States. If you blinked, you would have missed the guarded reference to an event that captivated the nation for a week.
For domestic political purposes, Biden does not want to call attention to the fiasco of the balloon floating over the country. However, what is at stake is more than a spy balloon or domestic political embarrassment. The balloon is not a single incident but needs to be understood in the context of the political warfare campaign that communist China is waging against the United States, while Washington’s response is a shadow of what it should be, if not altogether feckless….