Balloon intrusion.

Strange acts solicit strange responses. That is how one can decipher the childish act of flying a so-called spy balloon by China over the US territory. After a wait-and-see of many days, the US aviators took down a Chinese spy balloon off the Atlantic coast, subsequently stirring a diatribe from Beijing. It is said that the craft spent several days inside the US and flew over South Carolina and other states before being struck by an F-22 military aircraft by the Pentagon. Though it sounds fictional, the fact of the matter is that it has now led to a full-blown diplomatic row between the two states.

There is a plethora of questions that both sides need to answer before playing to the gallery or hiding their skeletons. How did the Chinese balloon make it to US territory, and that too kept on hovering in its skies for so long? What objective Beijing had in flying that sortie, and why didn't it inform the US if it was a mistaken intrusion into US airspace? No one is sure whether it was unmanned or...