The trip has been cancelled?!?
Or is it that it had never existed in the first place?
If this disaster spreads from the Ohio River downstream to the Mississippi and contaminates the US breadbasket, China should blanket ban all agricultural imports from that region.

If this disaster spreads from the Ohio River downstream to the Mississippi and contaminates the US breadbasket, China should blanket ban all agricultural imports from that region.
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Make them undergo inspection by Chinese authorities before selling in China. Good way to repay the US for their Xinjiang ban. Turnabout is fair play.
Wang Wenbin, the Chinese FM spokesperson, just knew this coming:All that money to shoot down their own balloon to feel better.
By the time a Chinese spy balloon crossed into American airspace late last month, U.S. military and intelligence agencies had been tracking it for nearly a week, watching as it lifted off from its home base on Hainan Island near China’s south coast.
U.S. monitors watched as the balloon settled into a flight path that would appear to have taken it over the U.S. territory of Guam. But somewhere along that easterly route, the craft took an unexpected northern turn, according to several U.S. officials, who said that analysts are now examining the possibility that China didn’t intend to penetrate the American heartland with their airborne surveillance device.
The balloon floated over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands thousands of miles away from Guam, then drifted over Canada, where it encountered strong winds that appear to have pushed the balloon south into the continental United States, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive intelligence. A U.S. fighter jet shot the balloon down off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, a week after it crossed over Alaska.
A U.S. military aircraft on Feb. 4 downed the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that had been floating over the United States for several days. (Video: Brett Adair)
This new account suggests that the ensuing international crisis that has ratcheted up tensions between Washington and Beijing may have been at least partly the result of a mistake.
Around Jan. 24, when the balloon was roughly about 1,000 miles south of Japan, model simulations show it began to gain speed and rapidly veer north. This was probably in response to a strong cold front that had over northern China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
US establishment trying hard to walk back the Chinese Spy Balloon hysteria, just for a potential Wang Yi-Blinken meeting at the upcoming Munich Security Conference.Ordinarily, atmospheric steering motions would have kept the balloon on much more of a west to east course, historical weather data shows. However, the intense cold front forced the jet stream and high altitude steering currents to dip south and may have scooped the balloon northward.

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Jeez a whole two days' drive to the airport?! After barely a week at the job pulling out a grand total of 3 people and one of them didn't even survive to boot? Can't even imagine the "extremely difficult" ordeal! The Taiwanese SAR team have my sympathies.