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People seem surprised that a technologically-advanced adversarial power is spying on us, a gigantic country that’s impossible to surveil? Like we haven’t had spy planes flying overhead since the early Cold War?
I get the outcry and the knee jerk reaction to shoot it down, but a Chinese spy balloon floating at 60k feet is  probably less worrying than all the other Chinese spying currently happening through Tik Tok, hacking, and corporate espionage.
Chinese spy balloon was watching ‘sensitive military sites’ and program has been targeting US for years

GOP has been complaining that Biden took too long to take action. Biden waited until it could be brought down without risk to others. Trump just let it happen. Three times. Now Republicans are pretending like they don't have a double standard, criticizing Biden but saying nothing about Trump. >

Supposedly Biden wanted to shoot it down days earlier, but the military said it was getting good data from studying what the balloon was transmitting and convinced him to wait >

This is the only explanation that makes sense to me. We waited until it was over the ocean. But also until it was close to leaving US territory. Seems like the military weighed risk / reward and decided surveilling the surveillance balloon as absolutely long as possible was what they decided. >

and they still get to pick it up and see what it was was on it.  the fact that this happened at least 3 times during rumps time in office and nothing was done should scare you.