Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it “spying equipment” or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.
Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it “spying equipment” or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.
It doesn’t matter, because the damage has already been done. They knew this from the start, but it was useful propaganda for the anti-China narrative, so they let it fester while sinophobic sentiment rose steadily and caused more anti-Asian crimes. Even now, while reading some of the comments to this article on
and YouTube, I saw people either changing the narrative into “so the Chinese are incompetent!” or “the government is clearly lying to us! the balloon flew over military installations and you’re telling me they didn’t record anything??? suuuuure”. Really the most propagandized dumbfucks on this planet. 