Is There a Tipping Point for China and Human Rights Violations???

[Captain Wiggles]

#BalloonGap 🤷‍♂️

[Larry]

So many references I can think of, here.  

 

Trump's makeup and white circles makes me think of Jack Nicholson's Joker, wearing "tan face".  

 

Which then leads me to this, as well:  

 

 

 

 

[LD0506]

[EmirOfShmo]

LOL...He's such a ****ing idiot.

 

 

[TradeTheBeal!]

Dudes ears just won’t stop growing!  It’s really getting weird looking these days.

[Cooked Crack]

 

[ixcuincle]

 

Edited February 5, 2023 by ixcuincle

[Captain Wiggles]

That shirt tho 🤣

 

 

Edited February 5, 2023 by Captain Wiggles

[China]

35 minutes ago, Captain Wiggles said:

That shirt tho 🤣

 

 

 

Clearly a riff on the Three Wolf Moon shirt that has such wonderful reviews.

[CousinsCowgirl84]

48 minutes ago, China said:

 

Clearly a riff on the Three Wolf Moon shirt that has such wonderful reviews.

Thank goodness he chose that wolf shirt to spoof and not this one:

 

Edited February 5, 2023 by CousinsCowgirl84

[Renegade7]

4 hours ago, TradeTheBeal! said:

Dudes ears just won’t stop growing!  It’s really getting weird looking these days.

 

His ears are bigger then his ball because he has none...

 

 

[LD0506]

[CousinsCowgirl84]

1 hour ago, LD0506 said:

No one would have been upset with areal lo mein and it would have gotten shot down a lot sooner…

Edited February 6, 2023 by CousinsCowgirl84

[PleaseBlitz]

 

 

[Larry]

Amazon reassessing drone delivery. 

[China]

China fires weather service head amid US balloon fallout

 

China has reportedly fired the country’s head meteorologist amid heightened tensions with the US over a suspected surveillance balloon that made its way into American airspace.

 

Washington shot down the balloon over the weekend off the Carolina coast after it traversed above sensitive military sites across North America. Beijing has denied allegations that the balloon was sent for surveillance, insisting that the flyover was an accident involving a civilian aircraft.

 

Zhuang Guotai, the head of the China Meteorological Administration, was reportedly fired from his post on Saturday in what was perceived to be an effort to mellow the tense situation before US president Joe Biden ordered the balloon to be shot down.

 

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[Bang]

The weatherman is never right!

 

~Bhang

[tshile]

Somewhere that dude is telling his family “I told them it would fly that way!”

 

[CousinsCowgirl84]

China really is playing this “but it was a weather balloon” thing pretty far out… all we need now is a tic-tok video of a bunch of Chinese high schoolers letting go of the balloons tethers while 

Zhuang Shouts “fly! Fly away my love!” Or whatever the Chinese equivalent of that is… 

Edited February 7, 2023 by CousinsCowgirl84

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[China]

Trump seethes on Truth Social after Pentagon says Chinese spy balloons flew over US on his watch

 

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed that China never sent alleged spy balloons over the U.S. during his administration — but officials say Chinese surveillance balloons traveled over the U.S. at least three times on his watch.

 

The U.S. military shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon on Saturday off the coast of North Carolina, which the Pentagon alleged was used to collect information on military sites. President Joe Biden reportedly authorized the military to shoot down the balloon on Wednesday but military officials determine that shooting down over land was too risky and waited until it was over the ocean as Republicans criticized the administration for not downing it sooner.

 

"The Chinese would never have floated the Blimp ('Balloon') over the United States if I were President!!!" he wrote in another post on Sunday.

 

Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement last week that the balloon did not pose a "military or physical threat to people on the ground" and revealed that similar activity had been "observed previously over the past several years."

 

A senior Pentagon official on Saturday told reporters that suspected Chinese government surveillance balloons "transited the continental United States briefly at least three times during the prior administration and once that we know of at the beginning of this administration, but never for this duration of time."

 

Trump denied the Pentagon's statement on his social media network.

 

"Now they are putting out that a Balloon was put up by China during the Trump Administration, in order to take the 'heat' off the slow moving Biden fools," he wrote. "China had too much respect for 'TRUMP' for this to have happened, and it NEVER did. JUST FAKE DISINFORMATION!"

 

Trump also told Fox News Digital that it "never happened with us under the Trump administration and if it did, we would have shot it down immediately."

 

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[CousinsCowgirl84]

Just to continue on to what @China said, the pentagon didn’t even know the balloons were violating our airspace till much later via other intelligence. Scary!

 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/politics/pentagon-balloon-monday/index.html

 

Pentagon says it had an ‘awareness gap’ that led to failure to detect 3 Chinese balloons under Trump

 

 

The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.

 

“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.

“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”

VanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”

 

I thought we knew, and did nothing. Turns out we had no idea and didn’t find out about it until Biden directed the military to step up its monitoring of surveillance… which I wouldn’t think they would need to be told to do, but here we are…

[Captain Wiggles]

High ups at the Pentagon probably just didn't inform the Trump administration. They figured Trump would wanna nuke the balloons so it'd be best not to tell him. 🤣

[China]

Taiwan suspects Chinese ships cut islands’ internet cables

 

n the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he couldn't provide them with the internet.

 

Others living on Matsu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands closer to neighboring China, had to struggle with paying electricity bills, making a doctor's appointment or receiving a package.

 

For connecting to the outside world, Matsu's 14,000 residents rely on two submarine internet cables leading to Taiwan's main island. The National Communications Commission, citing the island’s telecom service, blamed two Chinese ships for cutting the cables. It said a Chinese fishing vessel is suspected of severing the first cable some 50 kilometers (31 miles) out at sea. Six days later, on Feb. 8, a Chinese cargo ship cut the second, NCC said.

 

Taiwan's government stopped short of calling it a deliberate act on the part of Beijing, and there was no direct evidence to show the Chinese ships were responsible.

 

The islanders in the meantime were forced to hook up to a limited internet via microwave radio transmission, a more mature technology, as backup. It means one could wait hours to send a text. Calls would drop, and videos were unwatchable.

 

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[China]

China’s Xi gains unprecedented third term as president

 

Chinese leader Xi Jinping gained an unprecedented third term as president of the country on Friday.

 

Xi was widely expected to stay on as president in this month’s largely ceremonial parliamentary meeting, known as the “Two Sessions.” The annual gathering marks the meetings of an advisory group and a legislature, the National People’s Congress.

 

Delegates to the congress on Friday also formally reappointed Xi as chairman of the Central Military Commission.

 

Xi rose through China’s political ranks, becoming president in 2013 and abolishing term limits in 2018.

 

At the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th National Congress in October, Xi consolidated his control of the ruling party by filling the highest circle of leadership with loyalists.

 

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