Biden Rushes to Rewrite His State of the Union After Chinese Spy Balloon Flub
The Chinese spy balloon that crossed the continental United States may be no more, but Joe Biden’s headaches from the flubbed national security ordeal remain.
The president’s team is preparing to “rewrite” the China-centric portions of his State of the Union address, set to take place on Tuesday. That leads to the question of exactly what Biden was planning on originally saying.
It couldn’t be that Biden’s handling of the situation was weak and signaled to Beijing that incursions into US airspace will be tolerated. And if Biden really did order the balloon shot down on Wednesday and didn’t force his subordinates to carry out the order immediately, that’s not a show of strength either. Who is actually in charge over at the White House?
The last bit of that excerpt is the telling part, though. In the end, Biden and his cohorts (such as climate envoy John Kerry) care about one thing, and that’s spending your money and limiting your freedom to fight “climate change.” The reason the Chicoms have been given so much leeway on that national security front is that the president doesn’t want to mess up whatever ridiculous deal he’s working out with Xi Jinping’s government. Of course, China will never honor such a deal, but the victory lap, i.e. claiming he saved the planet, is the point. Not the end result.
The Biden administration remains far too cozy with China, and a little bit of tough talk while continuing to negotiate behind closed doors doesn’t change that. We should all also be deeply concerned about how much influence Gen. Mark Milley, a man with a gross history of China fluffing, apparently has over the president
