——And you have some bozo with a balloon——
China in general and the military in specifics is corrupt to the core. The balloon is perhaps the brainchild project the purpose of which is to create something to sell to extract money from the CCP.
Sometime do some reading about 1945-1949 Chinese civil war.
Chiang Kai Shek, triumphant over the Japanese in 1945 (WWII), was booted out of his own country by Mao’s armies and took up residence on Taiwan. Took the Chinese gold reserves with him.
His wife was US educated. Grew up in the US. He sent her to the US and she became conduit for money paid directly to US congressmen and bought their cooperation in obstructing any recognition of Mao and retaining Taiwan as “China” at the UN.
It was this . . . this American corruption . . . that created today’s stress point in Taiwan. Do not think Taiwan is peopled by staunch Democracy lovers. They are corrupt to the core. Chiang’s people arrived and brutalized the native population. Took all the land. Took all the legislative seats — and they were a minority of the total population.
Taiwan is not some shining light of freedom opposing China. It is a 50 year old garbage heap that got funded to build semiconductors.