You would assume the generals of the Communist Chinese People’s Liberation Army would have returned the favor.
You would assume that in any case Gen. Mark Milley, the woke chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did for the Communist Chinese they’d at the least have known as him as a matter {of professional} courtesy.
You would assume that Milley’s counterpart in Beijing — Gen. Li Zuocheng — would have picked up the telephone to provide the politically right Milley a heads-up that the Chinese had been sending a spy balloon over the United States.
This was the Communist Chinese surveillance balloon that Biden lastly ordered shot down over the flawed ocean final week after it accomplished its spy mission over the continental U.S. from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
It was Milley, when Donald Trump was president, who went rogue and with out Trump’s information telephoned Zuocheng in Beijing through the Jan. 6 Washington riot to inform him that the U.S. was steady and wouldn’t assault China.
As quoted in Bob Woodward’s e-book “Peril,” Milley mentioned, “General Li, you and I have known each other now for five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”
If Milley anticipated his buddy Li to tip him off upfront in regards to the Chinese spy balloon he needed to be disenchanted. When the telephone didn’t ring, he knew it was Li.
Consequently Milley, like Joe Biden and the remainder of America, didn’t discover out in regards to the Chinese surveillance balloon flying over the nation till the Billings Gazette in Montana broke the story.
So a lot for the nation’s crack intelligence businesses.
And now the Communist Chinese are accusing the Biden administration of illegally destroying Chinese property since, in response to them, it was actually a climate balloon that went off target.
It’s a marvel they don’t demand damages and an apology from the large man, though we might not wish to put any such ideas into his head.
Perhaps, although, China Joe ought to have had Milley name once more, in view of the truth that Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghu refused to take a name from U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
This diss got here after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled his go to to Beijing over the balloon flap.
So, since no one is speaking to no one, maybe China Joe may choose up the telephone and make the decision himself. He may speak immediately with Communist Party chief and President Xi Jinping immediately.
After all, China Joe has been identified to brag how he is aware of Xi higher than anybody else. “I’ve spent more time with him, I believe, than any other world leader,” Biden has mentioned.
As a matter of truth, the pair of world leaders shot hoop collectively earlier than a basketball recreation in China in 2011 when each had been veeps.
The name would go like this: “Hello Xi. It’s Joe.”
Xi: “Joe who?”
Biden: “ It’s me, Joe, Joey, you know, China Joe, the big guy, your friend.”
Xi: “Some friend. You busted my balloon.”
Biden: “I had no choice; people were busting mine. I kept the balloon a secret between us, but people found out about it. I’m running for re-election. I had to do something.”
Xi: “All we wanted to do was take video of the Super Bowl.”
Biden: “You launched too early. And you were way off course. The Super Bowl is in Arizona, and you were up in Alaska and Montana. And I did not bust your balloon until it completed its mission. Anyway, I thought you were interested in owning the NBA, not the NFL.”
Xi: “We want both”
Biden: “I’ll tell Hunter. He’ll be on the case after he’s through testifying before Congress.”
Xi: “And I want an apology and damages for you busting my balloon.”
Biden: “And you deserve one. Only it will have to wait until I’m re-elected. Right now I have to fake standing up to you and China to show how tough I am. But please don’t send over any more balloons.”
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”