OPINION: 'Because let’s be clear, freaking out over a weather balloon—even if were it a super duper spy balloon with cameras and sensors on it—is pretty darn dumb,' writes djrothkopf
—particularly with the 18th century technology they have supposedly unleashed against us—intentionally or otherwise.
And that’s to say nothing of the other forms of spying and surveillance undertaken by all nations all the time. For example, the 16 U.S. spy agencies employ well over 100,000 people. OurSure, China has long been known to spy on the U.S. But the forms of spying which have been most advantageous for the Chinese haveof stray balloons carried to America by wind currents they could not control. The balloon poses a negligible threat, if any. It is certainly not news that the Chinese are spying on us.
Of course, as noted above, the action is hardly significant in any real terms and definitely not destabilizing—except to the degree that it produces over-the-top Republican responses, and then reactions from the administration, such as postponing Secretary Blinken’s trip.associated with the incident, with its foreign ministry expressing regret, blaming the course of the balloon on the winds aloft, and saying the balloon was conducting climate research.
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