Taiwan slams Chinese balloons as safety threat, psychological warfare

These are obviously civilian weather balloons that have inadvertently blown off course, just like the ones over the United States.

China has no choice but to release many of these in hopes of obtaining accurate weather data.

Perfectly innocent, nothing to worry over !

The flight paths and altitudes would be useful data points but the MO here is scare mongering. The PRC obviously has a multitude of reconnaissance satellites covering Taiwan and its nearby waters.

These are obviously civilian weather balloons that have inadvertently blown off course, just like the ones over the United States.

exactly, totally agree with you. That's why US, Japan and Asean countries shall flying hundred of weather balloons over the commies' heads too..ooohhh, it might blown off course to above xi's house, or military base, but pls, nothing to worry about, it is perfectly innocent ! chill

Just another way for Communist China to pollute the region - as if they havent done enough already. Filthy place.

Stand strong, free Taiwan.

Target practice.

Shoot them down. Problem solved.

Beautiful Chinese balloons!!!..

Send them more!!..

LOL!!..

Whenever high altitude balloons are flown over anywhere in the world, the airspace control agencies in each govt are notified BEFORE the overflight happens.

When they want to fly a spy cargo, they don't tell anyone and hope not to be caught.

Weather balloons are sent up around the world daily to gather and share weather data with the world. I can't speak for Chinese weather (they don't even post correct extreme temperatures), but for the US, about 100 balloons are sent up daily and fly above commercial airline traffic in biodegradable balloons, tethers, with each instrument package weighing just 1500 grams. Typically, the balloons remain within 100 miles of the launch locations, though one stayed aloft for 30 days.

Wouldn't you love for one of these to land, in friendly territory, and crack open the payload to see who made the chips inside?

Especially since Bloomberg reported just this morning that Huawei Tech’s newest laptop, the Qingyun L540 notebook. runs on a 5-nanometer chip made byTaiwan Semiconductor. Date of manufacturer is 2020, around the time frame that US sanctions cut off Huawei’s access to the chipmaker. Link below.

Certainly would be ironic if Taiwan is being spied on by their own chips.

Plus, since NBC told us last month that China was using US internet for command and control, has anyone looked to see if any of Taiwan's providers were servicing these Chinese spy balloons? If so, add on to the irony.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-05/huawei-qingyun-l540-laptop-teardown-reveals-5nm-chip-by-tsmc-not-china-s-smic?utm_campaign=bn&utm_medium=distro&utm_source=MSN.

The CCP is full of it as usual. We all know that both the CCP and Putin are repeating the historical pattern of starting global wars. CCP wants to grab territory and control over Taiwan to make themselves feel more powerful... Putin wants to grab territory and control over former USSR satellite states to make himself feel more powerful... Interesting how world wars start because someone wants something that doesn't belong to them.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The idiot "rulers" of those countries haven't learned a **** thing.