Why China still uses spy balloons #shorts

Why China still uses spy balloons, explained by Vox producer Coleman Lowndes.

[ruben]

U.S government: China is spying on us!
Snowden: oh the irony.

[FunningRast]

“Unlike a satellite, it’s still in the atmosphere so it stays in sync with the earths rotation”

Dude never heard of geostationary satellites…

[xohnji]

Chinese: *Sending 1, 000 balloons to US*
US: It's poppin' time!

[eldankdoge]

China be trying to start a real life bloons game

[ZizoMass]

This balloon has as much chance of being a spy as any weather balloon....

[Scipiogemini]

No one talking about the US's regular use of spy balloons.

[yewliegoh]

The balloon can command the wind to bring it to US without any steering device.

[djcjfnfkrnfkddjcjfbfhvjd]

That’s a fortnite battle bus that rifted into our reality, the US thought it was from china

[vtxusll]

The arrow pointing to the “surveillance equipment” is actually solar panels.

[RGDCousinsGaming]

The balloon was way more bigger than I thought
I thought it was the size of a regular balloon

[doccore]

Actually the true purpose of our balloons is to troll you. Expect more of them coming your way, hahaha

[jogonyachickennugget]

What’s the point of it tho? Flying over a city? To what spy on civilians living normal life?

[AC_Blanco]

China starting to research US capability to deploy when they go for Taiwan

[gauravdas]

China-that's not our balloon
After shooting it down-why did you shoot down our balloon?

[CRAZYCRTC]

The mission costs of shooting down that balloon cost more than the ballon itself. Did you know that?

[yamatokawa]

I bough a lot of land recently back in Montana. It measures 45 by 88 city buses

[DoctaBuzz]

The first balloon was to see if we had missiles in the bases. The second that was shot down had the hypersonic nukes.

[DerrickMoore-sp]

That thing flew over me and I am just now realizing what it was

[LeonardGr]

I thought the heavy wind blew that balloon over the ocean that got stranded in the USA

[extendedp]

floating a nuke in a balloon like this and detonating it at altitude would create an EMP, and wipe out electronics and power for hundreds of miles below.