Panda In The Room: Biden Mum on Chinese Balloon in SOTU

During Tuesday night’s address to the nation, President Joe Biden did not mention the Chinese spy balloon that his administration permitted to cross the United States last week. This is a significant international incident that has captured the American public’s attention.

Biden only lasted a few moments of his nearly an hour long State of the Union address on China.https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/china-threatens-to-retaliate-over-downed-spy-balloon/”>threatened To retaliate United States against for shooting down spy balloon. The president did not make any apparent reference to this balloon. He said that his administration has demonstrated that it can withstand threats.

“As we made clear last week, if China’s threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country,” Biden said. “And we did.”

Biden’s critics, on both sides, claim the United States made a mistake in allowing the Chinese craft, first seen above Montana by the Chinese, to float across the country until it was shot down off South Carolina. On Tuesday, Mark Warner, a Democratic senator joined Republicans in calling for an intelligence briefing by the administration to explain why the military was not better equipped to deal with the balloon. Republicans Submitted The Washington Free Beacon They’re prepared to issue subpoenas in order to obtain more information about China’s incursion.

Biden did not mention China’s spy ball, but he stated during his speech that the United States was “in the strongest position in decades to compete with China or anyone else in the world.”

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the official Republican reply to Biden’s address, called China our “Our” “most formidable adversary.”

“The president’s refusal to stand up to China, our most formidable adversary, is dangerous and unacceptable,” Sanders said.