Posted on 02/05/2023 7:41:48 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
China on Sunday threatened to respond after the United States shot down a suspected spy balloon that flew over sensitive military sites while U.S. armed forces are currently recovering the aircraft.
"China will resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the company concerned, and reserves the right to make further responses if necessary," China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has insisted the balloon was a civilian research airship that went off course, said.
The agency also said China "strongly disapproves of and protests against the US attack," which it said "is a clear overreaction and a serious violation of international practice."
The U.S. military popped the balloon Saturday over the Atlantic Ocean after it traversed the continental United States for several days last week, including over sensitive military sites, according to The Associated Press.
The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard began a recovery operation for the balloon on Saturday, but it is unclear how long the mission will take. Officials plan on analyzing the recovered Chinese equipment in the balloon, which fell in about 47 feet of water about six miles off the coast.
"This surveillance balloon purposely traversed the United States and Canada, and we are confident it was seeking to monitor sensitive military sites," a senior Defense Department official said.
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The thing should have been shot down the second it crossed over from Canada at the very least.
Very true. This whole thing is hinky. I think China did this with the ok from Biden’s administration.
As previously mentioned, it could easily have been carrying and dispersing long half life radioactive particles like plutonium or biological agents like anthrax or an outright nuc. More likely something dispersable and deniable.
Nobody that is supposed to is doing any kind of job at all of protecting the nation.
If this act of war and threatened follow-up are even remotely real, every American should wake up this morning asking about their Chinese purchases which have funded the Chinese war machine and the millions of Chinese citizens now in the US at our schools and workplaces spying for their communist homeland. In the latter, we should focus on rescinding work permits and visas for non-citizens. Citizens should get the same scrutiny we should also be giving members of the Islamic Cult.
Biden will poop his pants.
FWIW....I wonder if it’s merely a coincidence that DishNetwork just happened to drop NewsMax at the very time the Ching-Chang spy baloon appeared on the west coast. The MSM intends to give us the MUSHROOM TREATMENT....Feed us horse manure and keep us in the dark!
How about over the Aleutians?
Let me get this right in my head - China violates our sovereign air space in violation of international law to illegally spy on our military installations and Joe Biden allows it to cross the entire continental U.S. gathering information and THEN shoots it down over the Atlantic Ocean and WE ARE THE BAD GUYS!?!
Go piss up a rope Xi!
The chicoms owe us $400,000 for one AIM-9X missile.
“... Chinese purchases...”
Many of the items are WiFi connected and or network capable with embedded network chips, so China has an “Amazon Backdoor” into almost every aspect of American life. They know where we are, what we talk about and who we are connected to. Real nasty stuff.
“This whole thing is hinky.”
There are so many missing pieces to this puzzle.
China must have known the location of this balloon. They must have roughly known the direction it was heading. And they must have known something like this could not go undetected.
Did they say anything about this before hand?
The CCP did not have control of the balloon to gently lower it to the ground as it “errantly” started to traverse Alaska?
The outrage in this event belongs to us - and, as usual - the Chinese are trying to steal it.
We need to immediately send one of our own over China and see what they do... Put the shoe on the other foot ans see how they handle it.
When are we going to outlaw the selling of U.S. real estate to Red China ?
When are U.S. universities going to terminate the 325,000 Red Chinese students, many of them spies, from enrolling ?
When is Red China going to be held accountable for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens, from Red Chinese fentanyl production ?
Crickets.
> “The thing should have been shot down the second it crossed over from Canada at the very least.”
Yes.
The entire exercise was designed to establish a “PRETEXT” for future hostile action; this according to Gaetz.
Beijing now has propaganda material for claiming “legitimacy” in its agenda. Xi was in the news last year pushing “legitimacy” for unspecified purposes which could be understood to be military in nature.
One speculative purpose could be shooting down US aircraft after claiming Taiwan’s airspace as its own.
So now we see that it mattered not to the CCP whether their maneuverable craft was shot down in Montana or off the coast of South Carolina.
But to the US, shooting down the invasive craft in Montana would have sent a strong message the US airspace is inviolate.
Just go after the other one.
Bingo! This whole incident is proof that Joe Biden is a National Security Threat. Letting the Chinese brazenly SPY on the US like this, waiting until their SPY BALLOON had completely traversed the US and was out over the Atlantic Ocean proves it!
What is we were collecting elint off of the ballon-satellite data uplink?
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