Is there anything your credulity filters? At all? Are you totally dependent on your gurus? Maybe that's why I can't ever be a buddhist.
It flew the course from west to east over the very areas we classify as "military" and "forbidden air space." The same Chinese to whom Clinton sold the entire store of classified information to John Huang, and Eric Swallowell sold out to Fang Fang, and who steal all our intellectual assets through our "allowing" their spies into our schools...these guys...did a flyover over our air space.
At any point over the Aleutian Islands, it could have been deflated and recovered. At any point at any time it could have been deflated and captured. Instead, President Ten Percent for the Big Guy allowed his Chinese Spy military to wait for it to complete its mission over the East Coast, and then shot it with a stinger...direct hit into the electronics, not the skin of the balloon and let it all fall into the salt water to destroy whatever wasn't blown to pieces. It's amazing to watch you rant from a nation that dresses the President of another nation in diapers and pats itself on the back for humiliating itself in childishness for the world to see. You've lost all sense of shame in the UK.
You imagine a regime that would allow reciprocity? If we flew a kite toward Beijing on a windy day, Taiwan would be toast, and its inhabitants Krispy Kritters.
You believe that the Department of Defense betrayed national sovereignty, betrayed the commander in chief and betrayed the constitution, keeping this secret from the sitting President of the United States?
Or are you really so gullible that you believe the press would have kept silent and given Trump the treatment they've given President Alleged Biden and his handlers?