Originally Posted by
pax britanica
isnt this sort of mission what U2s carried out decades ago ; I can understand the US destroying it/ shooting it down but not righteous indignation since they have been doing the same thing with more sophsiticated kit since forever
Seems naive to pass up a propaganda chance to poke your enemy in the eye, especially since the Chinese are always whining about capitalist expansion ( when they are busy concreting the China Sea reefs ). That apart, for the past few decades, surveillance has been carried out from outside the borders of the state concerned.