Biden says 'dictator' Xi 'not informed' about spy balloon by officials

US officials were surprised Tuesday night that the president would discuss the sensitive information in a public setting. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden said Tuesday night that President Xi Jinping of China had been kept in the dark by his own government about the spy balloon that crossed into United States airspace this winter before being shot down by an American fighter jet. At a campaign fundraiser in California, Biden set off into what appeared to be an unplanned riff about the incident that ruptured relations with China for months, revealing what United States intelligence agencies…