Pompeo: Biden’s Weakness on Spy Balloon Assures Chinese Aggression

President Joe Biden’s weakness with China is once again on display. U.S. officials located a Chinese reconnaissance balloon above the American mainland earlier in the week. The spokesperson for the Chinese Communist Party claimed that this was just a reconnaissance balloon. “weather research” balloon that had blown off course. Sure, the CCP’s harmless weather balloon just It happened to pass over multiple sensitive military sites vital to America’s national security—nobody should believe that nonsense, especially not the Biden administration.

Even if it were true, the CCP’s policy of civil-military fusion—which requires all available research and technology, from China’s private sector or otherwise, to be shared with the Chinese military—makes such an excuse an impossibility. This appears to be an intentional act espionage and signals that the CCP feels ever more empowered with Biden as its leader. The threat of conflict will only grow if the Biden administration doesn’t act quickly to change this paradigm. Aggression breeds weakness. America must be strong and determined.

This isn’t the first time the CCP has committed acts of espionage to the American people. China is and has been actively engaged in acts and propaganda against American citizens at all levels. The threat of the CCP here in America is very real, especially in Des Moines, Tallahassee and Pittsburgh. Its malign activity doesn’t stay in Beijing or Wuhan; it is already inside our gates.

CCP targeted federal officials like Senator Dianne Frankstein and Eric Swalwell, as well our universities, local governments, media and think tanks. CCP wrote a program of “Confucius Institutes” American universities. This is ostensibly to foster cultural links on our campuses. But in reality, it is to spy on students, professors, and steal intellectual property. China’s economy was built on the backs of Americans not only by taking American jobs but also, crucially, by an unparalleled campaign of corporate espionage that has robbed Americans of billions of dollars’ worth of intellectual property. Even seemingly harmless apps like TikTok are no more than tools to collect private information from Americans and spread CCP propaganda.

Instead of relying on White House press releases and diplomatic platitudes, you should instead rely on them. “deep concern” The Trump administration reacted to these threats. We refused to concede an inch