From a New York Times story by Julian E. Barnes and Edward Wong headlined “In Risky Hunt for Secrets, U.S. and China Expand Global Spy Operations”:

As China’s spy balloon drifted across the continental United States in February, American intelligence agencies learned that President Xi Jinping of China had become enraged with senior Chinese military generals.

The spy agencies had been trying to understand what Mr. Xi knew and what actions he would take as the balloon, originally aimed at U.S. military bases in Guam and Hawaii, was blown off course.