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Originally posted by LHeym500:
Every piece of reporting I have seen says this is some sort of espionage on part of China. Why use this instead of a stealth aircraft or satellite? I do not know. That is not the point.

The point is China haz intentionally violated U.S. airspace for its benefit.

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Originally posted by cal30 1906:
We just took it down.

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Originally posted by Huvius:
Watching the video, I see that most of the "experts" quoted in the many articles I read about taking it down were, of course, completely wrong.

Looked pretty easy to me, also, where is this vast debris field raining down to Earth?

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We just took it down.

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That's no assurance that trump would have ordered it shot down or even if his order would have been followed.

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Originally posted by Macswain:
"The US military just confirmed in an official statement that there were at least THREE Chinese spy balloons that flew over the US when Trump was president. Trump kept it a secret and did not shoot them down."

~Ann

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:

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Originally posted by Macswain:
"The US military just confirmed in an official statement that there were at least THREE Chinese spy balloons that flew over the US when Trump was president. Trump kept it a secret and did not shoot them down."

Who and exactly when? Post the names of the people who are saying this.

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Originally posted by skb:
Bloomberg reported Friday that 3 Chinese surveillance balloons entered US airspace during the Trump admin:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...too/?sh=36220ba3ea39

I know this does not fit well into the narrative the Conservative press has been spinning, but it did happen.

~Ann

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:

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Originally posted by skb:
Bloomberg reported Friday that 3 Chinese surveillance balloons entered US airspace during the Trump admin:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...too/?sh=36220ba3ea39

I know this does not fit well into the narrative the Conservative press has been spinning, but it did happen.

I don't see any officials/names behind that claim. Photos of the balloons? Where is all this info?

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Bloomberg News reported that the Biden administration was “well aware” that the balloon had entered U.S. airspace on Saturday, January 28, but decided to keep quiet about it so as not to ruin a planned trip by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to China.

The outlet reported:

As it turns out, US authorities were well aware of the unidentified object that had entered American airspace on Jan. 28, that had then left and re-entered over North Idaho on Tuesday. But with such a high-profile trip at stake, keeping it on the down-low was key.

However, on Wednesday, February 1, a Billings, Montana, resident spotted the balloon around 5:30 p.m. local time, and the next day, a local Montana paper published a report about it. Later that day, late Thursday afternoon, the Pentagon finally confirmed the existence of the balloon.

~Ann

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Originally posted by skb:
Bloomberg reported Friday that 3 Chinese surveillance balloons entered US airspace during the Trump admin:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...too/?sh=36220ba3ea39

I know this does not fit well into the narrative the Conservative press has been spinning, but it did happen.

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Oh, that's right, we let them buy our farm land too.

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Originally posted by Macswain:
"The US military just confirmed in an official statement that there were at least THREE Chinese spy balloons that flew over the US when Trump was president. Trump kept it a secret and did not shoot them down."

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Originally posted by wymple:
Setting yourself up to look stupid. ABC has also reported the same thing. News outlets regularly protect their sources. Go ahead, double down.

~Ann

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Smithfield Foods Inc., one of the biggest pork producers in the United States, on Wednesday agreed to be bought by Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd., the majority shareholder in China’s largest meat processor, for about $4.72 billion.

The deal, which still faces a federal regulatory review and Smithfield shareholder approval, is the largest takeover of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm. It’s the latest in a string of such deals made recently by Chinese companies.

But the acquisition is likely to face hefty U.S. scrutiny. It comes at a time when China has had serious food safety concerns, some of which have included Smithfield’s suitor, Shuanghui.

Risks to the U.S. food supply “enters everybody’s mind,” said Paul Mariani, director at Variant Capital Advisors in Chicago, who previously worked at a food and agribusiness boutique investment bank. But he said he believes Smithfield will continue to operate as normal.

Smithfield said the deal isn’t about importing Chinese pork into the U.S. Instead, the company says it’s a chance to export into new markets with its brands, such as Smithfield, Armour and Farmland.

Smithfield CEO Larry Pope said in a conference call on Wednesday that the transaction “preserves the same old Smithfield, only with more opportunities and new markets and new frontiers.”

“People have this belief ... that everything in America is made in China,” he said. “Open your refrigerator door, look inside. Nothing in there is made in China because American agriculture is the most competitive and efficient in the world.”

Indeed, the acquisition highlights what could be growing interest in American food by Chinese consumers. Foreign food, such as milk powder from New Zealand and vegetables from neighboring Asian countries, is prized by Chinese consumers because of the frequent domestic food safety scandals in their country.

Among the most notorious, six babies died and 300,000 were sickened in 2008 from drinking infant formula and other dairy tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. And Shuanghui’s reputation was battered in 2011 when state broadcaster CCTV revealed its pork contained clenbuterol — a banned chemical that makes pork leaner but can be harmful to humans.

Derek Scissors, an expert on China’s economy the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based conservative think tank, said companies like Shuanghui are “not looking to cause any trouble in the American market at all” or “cut corners.”

“Quite the opposite ... They want to gain from what the U.S. is able to do,” he said. “But whether they can operate an American company in the U.S. market remains to be determined.”

Trump: "Putin is a Genius" "Hezbollah is very smart"

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Go ahead, double down.

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Originally posted by Macswain:
"The US military just confirmed in an official statement that there were at least THREE Chinese spy balloons that flew over the US when Trump was president. Trump kept it a secret and did not shoot them down."

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Originally posted by RolandtheHeadless:
Don't you remember when Shrub was president and the Chinese forced down one of our spy planes? Then they took the plane apart and reverse-engineered it.

Tit for tat.

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Originally posted by Schrodinger:
A known douche says, “Never happened.”

Well, that sure settles the issue.

Laughing at you dopes. Keep ‘em coming. Good entertainment.