Asiatimes isn't an American paper though is it?
I don't think China accused it of being against international law, but against international practice.
In this case, China was in contact with the US and had confirmed publicly that it was theirs, so normal practice could have been to discuss a means to secure it and minimize damage to anyone.
Instead, presenting it as a threat by both government and media, and then destroying it as if it was an enemy to be vanquished, can reasonably be described as an "overreaction" which is the term the Chinese government used as well.
As far as we know, the balloon shot down by the J-10 was not claimed by any other party and as far as we know no one was in contact with the Chinese government about it to claim that it was theirs.
So yes, somewhat different.
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.
To China trade and exports in particular, Global South is becoming more important while EU/US becoming less important.
It is not a typical MSM in the west, but I am not sure. I am a paid subscriber. The fact that it values people like Pepe Escobar and David Goldman and M.K. Bhadrakumar as important contributors tells me that it is not a western MSM.Asiatimes isn't an American paper though is it?
The idea that The US has any right to complain about any violation to their sovereignty is so ludicrous that individuals who advance this argument certainly suffers from brain damage. A country that consistently invade other on causes proven to be false again and again, who unilaterally enforces no-fly zone upon other has absolutely no right to complain about ANY violation of airspace.That's right:
But according to some CCP shrills on this forum, this must've been a violation of international law.
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But according to some CCP shrills on this forum, this must've been a violation of international law.
if they were attempting to jam the balloon, then they would have been revealing jamming signals to the literal dozens of Chinese ELINT satellites flying overhead. Even ground based tight microwave relays aimed at other points on the ground can be eavesdropped upon by ELINT satellites low on the horizon.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.
Well, in relative terms, ASEAN is well on its way to become the 4th economic pillar in the world, after US, EU and China. ASEAN has been talking about forming a common economic block like EU for years. In the process, countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia can develop similar to China circa 2001. In political openness, some of the ASEAN countries are ahead of China. There will be scandals in the process. But looking forward as a whole, ASEAN is the most promising economic block in the world for the foreseeable future. ASEAN has all the pieces to be an economic superpower, having way better prospects than India or Brazil or Africa.This article is surprisingly not well written at all. For some reason he is presenting as though ASEAN states(other than Singapore) will be the next Asian Tiger Econnomies, that is objectively inaccurate. Be it Indonesia, Thailand, Phillipines or Vietnam, all of them has woefully low investment level in education, human resources and infrastructure for decades and does not have the prerequisite for their economy structure to transition into high income nation. The only ones with latent potential on paper are Malaysia and Indonesia, well the former is addicted on racist policies like pribumi, cases like MDB1 while Indonesia need Blackrock to run their sovereign fund.
Seriously, dude? If the IAF flies its Rustom drones over sensitive military sites in China, you'd expect the latter to sit on its ass and not do a thing about it because of "international law" (whatever that means)?
The cognitive dissonance on this forum is astounding at times.