Tester bashes Chinese balloon, buying farmland

In a press conference last week, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont, bashed a Chinese high-altitude balloon that crossed the United States, including over Montana, before it was shot down off the coast of South Carolina Feb. 4 by a U.S. fighter jet, and also pushed his bill that would ban antagonistic foreign governments like China from buying U.S. farmland.

"This was a clear violation of U.S. airspace and a completely unacceptable provocation from China," Tester said about the balloon shot down Feb. 4.

He said he led his Senate colleagues in a resolution condemning the balloon, which passed the Sen...