Biden Team Showed Weakness Over China’s Balloon, GOP’s McCaul Says

  • ‘They were testing us’: GOP chairman of House Foreign Affairs
  • Lawmaker says he’s certain Xi knew where balloon would travel
WATCH: Representative Michael McCaul speaks in a Bloomberg TV interview. Source: Bloomberg
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping was testing the US by flying a spy balloon over the country, and the Biden administration’s response showed weakness, the Republican leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said.

“They were testing us — it’s a very provocative shot across the bow of the United States of America,” Representative Michael McCaul of Texas said Tuesday on Bloomberg Television’s “Balance of Power With David Westin.”