Article from the Washington Post on China's weather balloon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...balloons-work/
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Experts in national security and aerospace said the craft appears to share characteristics with high-altitude balloons used by developed countries around the world for weather forecasting, telecommunications and scientific research.
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In a briefing Thursday, a senior defense official declined to discuss what the Pentagon knows about the technology onboard the Chinese balloon, but said the payload wouldn’t offer much in the way of surveillance that China couldn’t collect through spy satellites.
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For me, with everything we know, which is that China had a visit from the US Secretary of State planned for the next day, China's public statements that they want to work with the US and de-escalate, the US saying they've been tracking the balloon for a while now but choosing to announce on the eve of Blinken's visit but not earlier, indicates for whatever reason, the US changed their mind about de-escalation of the tensions between the two countries, which sucks for the world.
Maybe they can let the balloon participate in Super Bowl activities though!