China mocks Biden admin for being ‘blind to the toxic mushroom cloud’ over Ohio while obsessing over balloons

China tore into the Biden administration on Friday for targeting harmless objects in the sky but downplaying the chemical accident in Ohio that is raising health concerns.

"Speaking of ‘deflecting,’ can the U.S. tell us why it is able to see the ‘balloon’ 18,000 meters above the ground, but seems to have been blind to the toxic mushroom cloud of vinyl chloride over Ohio?" Wang said. Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.

The jab came after the Biden administration has faced several days of criticism for downplaying the derailment of a train in East Palestine, Ohio, that was carrying toxic chemicals, including vinyl chloride. After the train derailed, the decision was made to burn off chemicals on the train in order to manage a controlled release into the air, in order to avoid a possible explosion.