The China Surveillance-Balloon Story Is Not Getting Better

What we are learning about the U.S. response to China’s balloon surveillance is not encouraging.

The Biden administration has struggled to explain why the balloon, which was finally shot down off the Carolina coast on Saturday, was permitted to enter American airspace the previous Saturday, and subsequently glide across the length of much of our country for the better part of a week, lingering over such strategic sites as the 341st Missile Wing in Montana, home to scores of U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles.