Newsweek reports that the 2023 “Chinese Spy Balloon” was “packed with American technology that could have enabled it to spy on Americans.” How do they know that? They cite “two sources with direct knowledge of a technical analysis conducted by the U.S. military.”
Note the language here: The Chinese could have used this to spy on the U.S. because it had U.S. technology. Is there any proof that the Chinese had anything to do with it? There is not. The article is full of hypotheticals.
The “technology that could have military uses to main adversary China as well as to countries such as Russia and Iran…”
“The ballon might also have been carrying launchable gliders that could collect more detailed data, since it had empty storage bays…”
Okay. Iraq also could have had weapons of mass destruction but that turned out to be a lie. Nevertheless, before the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Newsweek published government propaganda to support that lie and promote the war. They should no longer get the benefit of the doubt with unnamed “sources.”
