That's right:
But according to some CCP shrills on this forum, this must've been a violation of international law.
Sorry but we only have Wumaos and CCP shills on this forum. Don't know what CCP shrills are, maybe you can find one for us?
That's right:
But according to some CCP shrills on this forum, this must've been a violation of international law.
The balloon is almost certainly a SIGINT platform, so every second it is left in the air is time that the US is allowing it to gather more critical data, hence the urgency to shoot it down. Destroying it is necessary as a defensive measure.
And I don't think the US needs to justify shooting it down despite the military necessity to do so. It is an adversarial military platform operating in the US' national airspace for crying out loud.
I wonder if previous balloon flyovers were untouched because the USAF had equipment capable of either jamming or eavesdropping on the SIGINT equipment on the balloons. They could've gleaned valuable data from the Chinese balloons without tipping Beijing off about the US' knowledge of them.
Talk about cognitive dissonance, looks like you're just being hypocritical and contradicting yourself.The balloon is almost certainly a SIGINT platform, so every second it is left in the air is time that the US is allowing it to gather more critical data, hence the urgency to shoot it down. Destroying it is necessary as a defensive measure.
And I don't think the US needs to justify shooting it down despite the military necessity to do so. It is an adversarial military platform operating in the US' national airspace for crying out loud.
you forgot 1 more thing: imagine a user named murica_souljahB0i_420 on this forum with a hammer/sickle flag for their avatar, calling the shootdown "a great victory over fascist invaders", demonstrating both "the great urgency in neutralizing imperialist recon assets with concern for the lives and property of the citizenry" and simultaneously saying "this recon asset was certainly being jammed and under surveillance so it gained zero useful info, there is no hurry to destroy it". Wonder what his reaction would've been to that.Let's do a fun thought experiment here. Suppose, for a second, that the roles were reversed. A U.S. weather balloon strayed into Chinese air space around Lunar New Year and traveled all the way down the eastern sea coast from Heilongjiang to Hainan. On the day of the Lantern Festival a Chinese airliner suddenly spotted the intruding balloon and all the media in China from Global Times to Xinhua started blasting hysterics about American Imperialist aggression, with Hu Xijin leading the charge on both Weibo and Twitter. They scrambled dozens of J-20s to survey the stupid thing and failed to knock it down and right when it cleared the sea coast in Hainan, a J-20 finally dispatches the damn thing with a PL-10. And after that every stickied video on Douyin and Bilibili shows high def videos of the J-20 shooting down a balloon for 48 hours. Tell me, would you consider that competent handling of the situation by the SeeSeePee or would you actually laugh at them like you usually do?
Zhuang Guotai, the head of the China Meteorological Administration, was removed from his position, it emerged on Sunday.
2023年1月18日,政协甘肃省十三届一次会议举行第三次全体会议,庄国泰当选为政协甘肃省第十三届委员会主席。
2023年2月3日,国务院任免国家工作人员,免去庄国泰的中国气象局局长职务。

He got demoted upwards.China fires head of weather service over spy balloon fiasco
Beijing removes its top meteorologist in an apparent attempt to shift blame over the device, which the US shot down
气球门?免去中国气象局局长庄国泰职务
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Comrade Zhuang isn't even retiring, he just got promoted to 政协甘肃省第十三届委员会主席.
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Probably better to work with China to de-escalate the situation instead of turning into some sort of rallying cry against China. Lots of normally sane people are now saying that China is going to war based on this escalation and are claiming the end times but seriously, for an supposed super power, couldn’t they have shut up about it and simply go and confiscate the balloon quietly rather then go along with the neocon agenda for starting yet another war. If this is an adversarial platform, a mere balloon, then China has the right to blow up any US satellite going over Chinas air space if that is the logic to use, heck, blow up any and every U.S. ship from coming close to China because it’s American, it has to be evil. Also, why did they have to waste a missile from an f-22 to down a balloon, couldn’t a few bullets at a closer range from f-16 or lesser do the same job or is Americas tech really be as outdated as it truly seems to be.The balloon is almost certainly a SIGINT platform, so every second it is left in the air is time that the US is allowing it to gather more critical data, hence the urgency to shoot it down. Destroying it is necessary as a defensive measure.
And I don't think the US needs to justify shooting it down despite the military necessity to do so. It is an adversarial military platform operating in the US' national airspace for crying out loud.