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Remember that Loon, the USA Google balloon project, sent similar balloons around the world, including over China. They didn't shoot our balloons down.

• tushar-r 4y ago
  Pretty certain they did not. China controls the Internet a little too seriously and has banned Google for many years to allow them to fly Loon balloons beaming free internet to their population.
  • pifm_guy 4y ago
    They didn't give permission for the internet service to launch there. But they did give overflight permission.
    • thebytefairy 4y ago
      If they gave permission, then that's a very different scenario to this one.