China’s big balloons for Biden gave America an unwelcome Valentine gift

Darrell Todd Maurina
7 min readFeb 14, 2023

The Chinese so-called “weather balloon,” for better or for worse, after crossing American airspace from Alaska to the Atlantic, has exposed serious limits on the ability of the United States to intercept or even detect foreign surveillance activities on American soil, or in this case, above it. We’ve now seen at least three smaller balloons, so far of undetermined…

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