Balloon Incident Reveals More Than Spying as Competition With China Intensifies

It may be months before U.S. intelligence agencies can compare the audacious flight of a Chinese surveillance balloon across the country to other intrusions on America’s national security systems, to determine how it ranks. After all, there is plenty of competition. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times There was the theft of the designs of the F-35 about 15 years ago, enabling the Chinese air force to develop its look-alike stealth fighter, with Chinese characteristics. The