That balloon must come down, so should the General who says otherwise.
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Last time I heard, it was 60,000 ft up, ~12 miles. Good luck trying to get that one with a hunting rifle.
As for why to shoot it down? I suspect this is purely symbolic. Wait, what? You read correctly. We've had satellites that can take clear pictures of your license plate from low earth orbit for 2 decades. More to the point, the minute the Soviets shot down the U-2 spy plane over Russia in 1960, the military learned that if they want to hide things on military bases, put them in buildings or underground. This is part of the origin of DUMBs. There is nothing that balloon is going to see that China can't already see from space. And even if it did see something we'd jam its transmissions and they'd still have no joy.
Spying relies on subtlety and stealth. If you want to spy and get away with it, you don't float a big ass balloon into airspace protected by the world's most advanced radars.
This is about something else? What exactly is China up to? I have no idea. But it isn't what the Pentagon is hinting at or what any of the talking heads are yammering about to fill air time on their talk shows.