Someone posted that tweet by hoggamer(?) or/and Arnaud, and I agree with the motive suggested. It's very clear US wants to push and turn up the China aggression/threat/evil narrative. In short, anti china propaganda.I suppose that's reasonable. What's your explanation for the US sperging about this and insisting it's not a weather balloon?
Ummm...there is no US. in history. It is just a concept bred out of euro colonization of native america barely 200 years ago. It will take less than 24 hours to teraform native america if these things dont keep their mouth shut. RS-28 raining down on native america isn't exactly good for p-rnhub production.It's such similar predictive behaviour, i'm convinced there's something in the genetic memory of Indo-European homo sapiens that makes them gullible and susceptible to loquacious BS artists- maybe religious god kings had to use BS to keep order. It's actually very striking to the Galwan incident where indian media made stuff up to suit their paranoid narrative.
In the meantime, American neocons furiously cry that they are the king and no one better touch them.
Yes Always been. White Americans and Europeans dominate the higher ups in ATP and WTA. And almost all the tennis legends too. It's also geared towards elite class but that has slowly changed over the years.Tennis is pretty much a western sport dominated by American influence, and these political moves show that very clearly
Just in case anyone here harbors any self-doubt that it is a weather balloon, why would China send a balloon to spy on another country thousands of miles away when it has a very high likelihood of being intercepted, compared with a satellite? Once its contents proved it to be a spy balloon, China would be put in the dock.
It is different from the border with India where a balloon would be more useful as by lofting at the border, it can see probably over a hundred km into its territory. And it can be easily retrieved.
Now I hope the navy tries not to be ambivalent about its contents to save their politician's and media's faces.

Reminds me of this episode. Weather balloon that mocked US military and sidewinders. Only they had F15s instead F22s.In memory of the CCP Balloon blown up by the most high tech weapons in the USAF
Sad to see the usual incompetence at communication from the Chinese government. If they wanted to confirm to everyone that it was a spy balloon, this complaint has done it
If fact is the reverse, if it was a spy aircraft you don't complain because wasn't suppose to be there. But if it was a civilian aircraft that go out route then you complain because there is litle reason to destroy probably thousands of dollars of research instruments just because paranoia, that is why communication channels exist. Even in the soviet era that was a thing.Sad to see the usual incompetence at communication from the Chinese government. If they wanted to confirm to everyone that it was a spy balloon, this complaint has done it