The spy balloon that changed the US conversation about China

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After transfixing those who could see the tiny white dot high in clear blue sky with their own eyes for the better part of a week, a 200-foot-tall Chinese spy balloon met an ignominious fate at the pointy end of a single Sidewinder air-to-air missile fired from a U.S. F-22 stealth fighter jet on the first Saturday in February.

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