Social media is flooded with memes about China's surveillance balloon after US fighter jets shot it down over South Carolina

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• The US shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the South Carolina coastline Saturday.
• The balloon soon became the subject of viral memes across the internet.
• Some Twitter users joked that the balloon was actually a piñata or the Wizard of Oz's hot air balloon.

US fighter jets shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance...