Collecting intelligence with things like satellites and flying planes in international waters is 100% legal and allowed.
Doing it by violating airspace with balloons is not. Doing it with human espionage is not. So it isn't hypocritical at all to be outraged by the latter but not the former.
What happened here is that this big news balloon wasn't the 1st, but it was a major escalation in size and depth of penetration. Previously China "tested the waters" using their typical salami slicing tactics and tried only minor, brief incursions. When they got away with that, someone over in the CCP decided to escalate and try to overfly the US with a huge one.
It backfired and blew up in their faces in the US and international press, and the CCP's response to their failure has been laughable. They've been falling all over themselves changing their tack day to day, contradicting themselves, and generally making a display of their incompetence.
I think that we need to dust off the SR-71 to show China how spying is done... But knowing Biden he would probably request for it to crash just near Beijing as a gift to Xi.
The USG has been spying on the entire world, with balloons and without, so the outrage struck me as quite hypocritical.
Then again, hypocrisy is the state religion in the West.
Collecting intelligence with things like satellites and flying planes in international waters is 100% legal and allowed.
Doing it by violating airspace with balloons is not. Doing it with human espionage is not. So it isn't hypocritical at all to be outraged by the latter but not the former.
What happened here is that this big news balloon wasn't the 1st, but it was a major escalation in size and depth of penetration. Previously China "tested the waters" using their typical salami slicing tactics and tried only minor, brief incursions. When they got away with that, someone over in the CCP decided to escalate and try to overfly the US with a huge one.
It backfired and blew up in their faces in the US and international press, and the CCP's response to their failure has been laughable. They've been falling all over themselves changing their tack day to day, contradicting themselves, and generally making a display of their incompetence.
"Mommy, he popped my baloon first"
The fk is this? Kindergarten?
Worse. Its geopolitics.
Ok, and? If you don't want your balloons shot down, don't send them over the US
I know I won't give a shit if they shot down some weather ballons.
I get the feeling this is supposed to be Biden's big chance to show he can stand up to China.
It's too much of a clown show for that. Too many memes of f-22's with balloons painted on the side for this situation to be treated seriously at all.
Like all Biden's moves, it did not work as wanted.
Except we call them satellites and they orbit the earth
Spy planes and drones? I would not be surprised at all.
Balloons? lol. lmao even
I think that we need to dust off the SR-71 to show China how spying is done... But knowing Biden he would probably request for it to crash just near Beijing as a gift to Xi.
Live footage of multiple balloons being flown specifically to annoy the Red parties in China.
no u
China lies. The US would never use balloons because it's stupid to do so and we just use satellites instead.