I'm sure Xi is beyond having his feelings hurt by Biden, but just look at Bilken's reaction lmao.
Inviting a head of state to your country to publicly insult them is unacceptable anywhere, so this is only going to further tarnish the shitty reputation of American diplomacy.
If I remember the articles correctly, they never denied it being a surveillance device, just that it transmitted (collected?) any data. So the running media story was "spy balloon that wasn't actively spying". That raises the question of "why?", but libs never seemed to bother with that one.