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My favourite Twitter genre today is Chinese propaganda apparatus claiming the balloon story was made up by the Pentagon to smear China, before the Chinese Foreign Ministry admits it **is** their balloon pic.twitter.com/dlcfhnR0x6
— 杨涵 Han Yang (@polijunkie_aus) February 3, 2023
Here is Global Times citing “experts” that it is groundless, ridiculous and very unlikely the balloon is coming from China pic.twitter.com/SBSwr1yfXN
— 杨涵 Han Yang (@polijunkie_aus) February 3, 2023
Hubei state media thinks the story is McCarthy like smear job pic.twitter.com/MhhZWm8QS0
— 杨涵 Han Yang (@polijunkie_aus) February 3, 2023
Henan State TV thinks American thieves are blaming others for their own burglary because America always uses balloon to spy pic.twitter.com/pQRweUVAPL
— 杨涵 Han Yang (@polijunkie_aus) February 3, 2023
My friendly advice to both CCP boosters and haters: it is better to adopt wait-and-see attitude when it comes to matters relating to intelligence assets, because we simply don’t know (even Chinese MFA spokeswoman herself may be in the dark). Case in point: https://t.co/5HY4cEfI8j
— 杨涵 Han Yang (@polijunkie_aus) February 3, 2023
Spy, no spy, here comes the Bear pic.twitter.com/GcTL4iZQjI
— Angie 安吉 (@HarvardNRW1) February 4, 2023
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