(February 4, 2023 at 7:55 pm)Belacqua Wrote: I wonder how many spy satellites, high-level spy planes, and drones the US has over China at any given moment.
Equating satellites with aerial vehicles is a false equivalence. No nation has sovereign rights over the space above it's land, only to the airspace over it.
As for spy planes over China, I doubt we do overflights. Their radar is fine and they'd be trying to shoot any planes down just as we did this balloon. U-2s/TR-1s make big, fat targets even for the old SA-2s that brought Gary Powers down. We fly ELINT missions around their periphery in order to maintain our databases on their radar capabilities, but those aren't into sovereign airspace, so there's another false equivalence on your part.
As for drones, I don't think we have any drones stealthy enough to evade detection and destruction. And once destroyed, the Chinese would most certainly trumpet that fact.
All nations spy on each other. All nations also defend their airspace.
You are a remarkably uninformed person when it comes to this sort of stuff.
