The balloon's gone up

This Chinese spy balloon hovering over the US at 60,000ft should unquestionably be shot down. It's so obvious it's a deliberate provocation by Beijing that to do nothing will be as good as saying to China, please go ahead and send what you like to spy on us. Beijing claims it's all a big mistake and it's just an innocent meteorological balloon that has oh dear veered off course and there is nothing to worry about. Or in their words, calm down, there's no drama. Then suddenly another one appears, this time over Latin America. I bet that all those quadcopter drones that went wizzing around US Navy warships off California a year or so back were all Chinese spy drones and not UFOs with aliens inside as so many American conspiracy theorists suggested. What would China do if the US sent spy balloons over Chinese missile sites? Beijing would go crazy, shoot them down and inform the world that the US had invaded. Look what happened to Francis Gary Powers in 1960 when he flew a U-2 spy plane over missile sites in Russia. He got shot down with a surface-to-air missile. This spy balloon is China's way of testing America's air defences and the US has decided to leave it alone. The Pentagon chiefs didn't want them shot down in case anyone was hurt by all the bits dropping to earth. Well, shoot it down over the least inhabited part of Montana or whereever it might be hovering over and tell everyone to stay indoors. I mean this is a serious provocation by China. They can't be allowed to get away with it. Surely?