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Denied by the US: https://twitter.com/NSC_Spox/status/1625105603583418370 https://twitter.com/NSC_Spox/status/1625105603583418370 > Any claim that the US gover
by h2odragon 4y ago
Denied by the US: https://twitter.com/NSC_Spox/status/1625105603583418370 https://twitter.com/NSC_Spox/status/1625105603583418370
> Any claim that the US government operates surveillance balloons over the PRC is false. It is China that has a high-altitude surveillance balloon program for intelligence collection, that it has used to violate the sovereignty of the US and over 40 countries across 5 continents.
... which strikes me as odd; we (the USA) ain't got nothin floating in the upper atmosphere in asia? or are they pinning their squirm on "surveillance" and how that gets defined?
- foxyv 4y agoThe USA prefers to use space instead for our spying. There are treaties that make it less likely to cause an incident. This is why we have space planes and recon satellites. We also fly over international waters collecting signals intelligence using planes like the Growler. The USA may fly stuff over China, but it will probably be a balloon from some University or NOAA. Also it will probably have an ADS-B transponder or some sort of GPS tracking with notifications to airspace controllers. We don't really need spy balloons. As China is learning, they are more just a way to piss other countries off without much payoff. Especially since the end of the Open Skies Treaty.