CNN: 中國氣象局長被撤職。給習總惹出大麻煩，放一個自己都控製不了的氣球幹什麽呢？

Beijing says head of national weather service has been fired after revelation of Chinese balloon hovering over the US

From CNN’s Wayne Chang in Hong Kong

The head of China’s weather service has been relieved of his duty, Chinese state media announced on Saturday, in a move seen by some analysts as an attempt to shore up Beijing’s position that the high-altitude balloonflying over the continental US was of civilian nature mainly for meteorological purposes.   

The announcement carried by state-run Xinhua news agency came after a senior US defense official said on Thursday that they were tracking a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon flying over the continental US.  

Zhuang Guotai was the head of China Meteorological Administration until Friday, but his departure from that post was not unexpected. In late January, Zhuang was elected the head of the western Gansu province’s People’s Political Consultative Committee, the provincial political advisory body.