Pethaps, same thing happened when the space shuttle disintegrated over Texas in 2003.
Cold War against China?
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Imagine the bids on eBay
Makes sense. But didn’t they see it coming?
Im guessing the balloon doesn’t use any tech the USA doesn’t already have
Is that a no then
We first picked it up on radar over the Aleutians.
Maybe the balloon spotted the 2 Russians fleeing to Alaska.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/06/russians-flee-alaska/
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I often forget about it, but China have been in deep trouble since the Biden administration began striking with the CHIPS Act. I can only imagine how worse the situation would be if the US start using that as a rallying point with their allies on the road to sanctions near the level of those currently applied against Russia. However, I'm not exactly convinced about the jamming part though.
Twitter and online "analysts" are so annoying. Trying to theorize and figure out what it was China was trying to find.
You honestly think that sort of information will just be lying around in public?! No wonder many on Twitter thought the Ukrain invasion was the first war recorded on Twitter!
You honestly think that sort of information will just be lying around in public?! No wonder many on Twitter thought the Ukrain invasion was the first war recorded on Twitter!
Agreed on the rest but we have no obligation or desire to be "pro Europe" or follow failed EU progressive policies, especially since we are seeing how that is working out with the latest projected GDP figures.
Can’t believe that balloon was taken out off the coast of Myrtle Beach
Xi is as elite as it gets for someone in China who grew up during the chinese revolution.
Cool story bro.
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This is the level of quality human being that Myrtle Beach is so well known for
Spot on.
Sighh. America needs to be separated into two different countries.
Plenty of people in the US would probably love that.
My guess is that they were hoping to catch Trump playing golf and the debris field was mis-judged
Yeah but feck China and their dirty tactics.
Just some guys having a beer probably a bbq. Patriots. I'd stand by that rather than people dismissing this. I'm from the UK.
Well fecking done USA
His fecking ears are massive.
He's like a Cuban Romulan.
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Make it the shape of the moon, or paint it yellow and star shape. Should fool most Americans
what’s wrong with anything they said in that video?
I think around six or seven.
Good stuff by Vox today for those who may not be completely versed into the microchip war between the 2 countries and who don't want to be overwhelmed by technical terms.
One thing I keep asking myself since the balloon incident is this: what can happen next in the US reaction towards China now?
After the U-2 was shot down in 1960, a lot of things happened. Nikita Khrushchev basically cancelled an East-West summit, told Dwight Eisenhower to feck right off, sped up the construction of the Berlin Wall, and precipitated the nuclear arms race in a climate of total mistrust. Dark Brandon called Xi out during the SOTU, so I genuinely wonder if this could lead to a similar of mistrust from the US towards China on the same level as the Soviet Union towards the US and vice-versa in the early 1960s. It's obvious that the statu quo or a reset are not realistically possible, especially for as long as Xi remains in power.
After the U-2 was shot down in 1960, a lot of things happened. Nikita Khrushchev basically cancelled an East-West summit, told Dwight Eisenhower to feck right off, sped up the construction of the Berlin Wall, and precipitated the nuclear arms race in a climate of total mistrust. Dark Brandon called Xi out during the SOTU, so I genuinely wonder if this could lead to a similar of mistrust from the US towards China on the same level as the Soviet Union towards the US and vice-versa in the early 1960s. It's obvious that the statu quo or a reset are not realistically possible, especially for as long as Xi remains in power.
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it's the not the same level of event. the USSR at that time had cemented the iron curtain, was making inroads into south america, and basically contesting the new american empire all around the world. including in korea just ten years before via china. today, by comparison, all you have, thankfully, is a war of words over taiwan and trading embargos. a spy-balloon floating over america could prompt any kind of reply so under the radar that no one would ever hear about it. it was most likely china's reply to the pelosi taiwan trip, imo, and was intended to be seen. suspicious that the chinese didn't deny all knowledge of it, which means they basically wanted it to be known it was a chinese balloon but "misdirected". done for internal consumption in china more than actual top level spying imo.
the standard, internationally, is just to deny all knowledge of it. been happening for years. even the small states know how to play that game. but china took ownership of it, which is weird.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/us/politics/china-spy-balloons.html
there is the above on the other hand but mainland US is a different proposition to US entities abroad.
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"Weather balloon"
Whether balloon?