Why the menacing threat of China's spy balloon - and America's surrender to it - is just the latest proof that the People's Republic's insidious creep into the US is so much more than conspiratorial hot air

What could a giant balloon over a Montana nuclear weapons base, a corn mill on 300 acres of prime North Dakota farmland, a wind farm in a windless stretch of Texas, a popular social media platform, and a nondescript office building in downtown Manhattan possibly have in common?

The answer is causing growing alarm among US politicians and officials – for it's China.

Now while the eyes of millions of the Americans are turned to the skies – tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon that's been drifting over the country for days, hard experience has taught America to assume the worst when it comes to Beijing.

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