Biden Capitulates to China

Bizarrely, the flight of the Chinese military spy balloon over the U.S. may be the occasion for U.S. concessions to Beijing, rather than the other way around.

According to a new report from Reuters, the State Department’s “China House” team was ordered to stand down on some long-planned measures targeting the Chinese Communist Party’s malfeasance, so that Secretary of State Antony Blinken can secure the trip to China that he had to cancel after the balloon incident.

Citing four State Department sources and internal emails, Reuters reveals that Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman...