In every country when an airspace violation occur, its identified as airspace violation by telling the type, except to the US who always came with flying objects stories since the cold war, the question is, why only the US gets flying objects? no other country reports these things? is the US on a different plant than earth?

China has WMD`s, i guess the WMD story will not work this time to start a war, so the Americans will come with new thing.

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    I have no clue what you’re trying to say in your text, but other countries (namely Canada) did also spot Chinese balloons above their territory. There was also evidence that these balloons had equipment on board that did not line up with what is expected on a weather balloon.

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      There was also evidence that these balloons had equipment on board that did not line up with what is expected on a weather balloon.

      Do you mind sharing your evidence? Because that’s not what was officially reported by the Pentagon. It was reported that it had off-the-shelf components (i.e., exactly what you’d expect on a weather balloon), and didn’t collect or transmit anything.

      Chinese spy balloon didn’t collect intelligence as it flew over US: Pentagon:

      The Chinese spy balloon that was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean in early February was built, at least partly, using American off-the-shelf parts, a U.S. official has confirmed to ABC News. […] Later Thursday, Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said that the balloon not only did not transmit data back to China – it never collected any.

      You’ll note that media still insists on using the phrase “spy balloon” when it was just a weather balloon. They even said as much, and they still use fearmongering phrasing because they know it serves their narrative.

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    I’m not sure if this is correct, but I have heard that the jet stream really only sends balloons on a course from China to the US. Sending balloons the other way around, as China has claimed, entails sending them over a billion people and many different country’s airspace.

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        It would still need to send them over territory that is either hostile or neutral.

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        It would still need to send them over territory that is either hostile or neutral.

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          I love that you say that like the US would never dream of sending stuff over a country without their consent. The US was spying on allies such as top German politicans, they have like ten different spy plane, spy drone, spy shapeship, etc projects currently running that we know about, they invaded friendly Pakistan to get Osama… Do you really think the CIA would pause for a second before flying a balloon over Tajikistan?

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            I love that you say that like the US would never dream of sending stuff over a country without their consent.

            You misinterpret me. Of course US surveillance has a long arm. I’m not denying that. It’s less a question of whether they would and more whether they can. For that matter, it doesn’t even make that much sense to.