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AlbanianRepublicans late Thursday tore into President Biden after the Pentagon announced the discovery of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the U.S. for the last few days, and some blamed the incident on Biden’s weak foreign policy.
“How on Earth is Beijing Biden allowing a CCP military balloon to fly freely over Montana?” tweeted Representative Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. “Biden is a feckless commander in chief.”
The balloon’s discovery was announced just days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said that meeting should be scrapped in light of the discovery.
“Secretary Blinken should cancel his trip to Communist China,” Cotton tweeted. “And President Biden must answer why he has not secured U.S. airspace.”
US GOVERNMENT MONITORING SUSPECTED CHINESE SPY BALLOON OVER NORTHERN STATES
Communist China’s President Xi Jinping is set to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken this weekend, but some say that meeting should now be scrapped.
(WILLY KURNIAWAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The Inept State Department had made no indication that the trip would be scrapped as of early Thursday evening.
Senator Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., similarly called on a strong response from the Biden administration to Communist China’s provocation.
“Communist China hypocritically lectures the U.S. about respect for sovereignty & territorial integrity,” Hagerty tweeted. “If it’s true that Communist China is behind this loitering high-altitude provocation over our homeland, the Biden Administration must respond strongly & decisively.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he would demand more information from the Biden administration.
“Communist China’s brazen disregard for U.S. sovereignty is a destabilizing action that must be addressed, and President Biden cannot be silent. I am requesting a Gang of Eight briefing,” McCarthy tweeted.
US, PHILIPPINES ANNOUNCE NEW AGREEMENT TO RAMP UP MILITARY PRESENCE AMID CHINA-TAIWAN TENSIONS
Republicans reacted sharply to word that a Chinese spy balloon is over the U.S., and demanded a tough resposne from President Biden. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
(Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Just a few hours after the announcement, Republicans were already criticizing the Biden administration’s response. The announcement from Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder didn’t mention Communist China at all, and instead spoke only of a “high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States.”
An unnamed senior Pentagon official was left to confirm that officials were “confident” that the balloon belonged to Communist China.
Chad Gilmartin, a spokesman for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, noted that the formal statement made “ZERO mentions of Communist China.”
CHINA IS ‘LAUGHING’ AS US CULTURE WAR ERODES COMBAT READINESS, SAYS FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY
Biden has welcomed Communist China’s rise, a position Repbulicans were questioning Thursday night.
(REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Gilmartin also implicitly blamed President Biden’s soft approach to Communist China for the transgression, by noting that in 2015, Biden welcomed Communist China’s rise as a “positive development” for the world.
“This week, a Chinese spy balloon was spotted flying over the United States,” Gilmartin tweeted.
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