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zephyreks
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This article starts with talking about the spy balloon that wasn't a spy balloon: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-bizarre-secret-behind-chinas-spy-balloon/
"The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon,"
After the Navy raised the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic, technical experts discovered the balloon's sensors had never been activated while over the Continental United States.
So, why was it over the United States? There are various theories, with at least one leading theory that it was blown off-track.
So... The only reason people even consider this a spy balloon is because some guy in China launched it? Wonderful.
Russia, North Korea, Iran have no reason to launch cyberattacks on China. Neither does Israel, really (their capability is far more oriented towards, y'know, their immediate vicinity). We're left with the US and UK, but as we all know, the UK doesn't really have international power anymore and as a result has little reason to provoke China.
Anyone surprised by this is kidding themselves. Only a few countries have developed sophisticated cyberattack capabilities and even fewer are actually interested in China.
Plus, ever since China went around and started executing CIA operatives in China, the US has been operating rather blind with regards to China.
Maybe drop one to show that Russia still has the capability, then another on a different city to show that Russia can keep dropping bombs for as long as it takes?
The Biden administration has overseen the sharpest rise in child poverty in America in decades. It's the responsibility of the governing party to figure out how to get results, not how to take a feels-good position.
He is, quite literally, a Democrat. The fact that he is a Democrat sort of draws the line for where the "center" in the US is.
To what extent? Greater than healthcare? Greater than the flagging economy? The government has limited money.
Why would they? There's only 535 people in Congress. Giving each of them a million dollars in "donations" every four years is basically a rounding error.
China dumped $180b into solar?
Danielle Smith is the opposite of a fiscal conservative. Dumping $330m on the new Saddledome? Cleaning up for oil companies?
China's... not so wrong with this one. Under the previous KMT government, Taiwan-China relations were normalizing (not to the degree of reunification, but to the degree that conflict wasn't really on the horizon anymore because of the economic harm it would cause). The DPP has taken a strongly anti-China stance and the result has been escalating tensions... All while bilateral trade across the strait continues to grow.