A U.S. military fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, a week after it first entered U.S. airspace and triggered a dramatic -- and public -- spying saga that worsened Sino-U.S. relations.
A F-22 fighter jet from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia -- took the shot at 2:39 p.m. (1939 GMT), using a single AIM-9X supersonic, heat-seeking, air-to-air missile, a senior U.S. military official said.
The balloon was shot down about six nautical miles off the U.S. coast of the Atlantic Ocean, over relatively shallow water, potentially aiding efforts to recover elements of the Chinese surveillance equipment over the coming days, U.S. officials said.
Read the latest LOST IN HISTORY post on China & Tibet.
Lhasa, the capitol of Tibet in the Himalaya Mountains
Before Communist China existed, for over a 1,000 years, Tibet was a ‘protectorate’ of the Manchu/Qing Dynasty. Tibet however maintained its own language, governor, laws, army, and paid no taxes. China’s control over Tibet weakened during the 1800’s, when China suffered assaults from the Japanese and British Empires. By the turn of the…
Oh yeah, keep dickriding Kissinger you fucking faggot, I’m sure he wouldn’t have had to beaten to death and mutilated in a junta prison somewhere
The cunt said, IN HIS LIFETIME, that if he wasn’t a Jew he’d be an antisemite
Isaacson wrote that following Israel's violation of a 1973 ceasefire with Egypt, "Kissinger grumbled at one WSAG meeting, 'If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be anti-Semitic.'
"In other moments of exasperation, he would note that "any people who have been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong.'"
Glad to know Israelis really are just a bunch of self hating Jews with a big arms stockpile.
Am I to take an unverified quote like that seriously? And I don't ride his dick, quite the contrary, he was a scumbag for betraying Taiwan in favour of Red China just to snub Russia. He deserves to burn in hell for that with Tricky Dick.
Australia, the TPNW and nuclear weapons
23 Aug 2023|Rod Lyon
The Labor party avoided an open stoush over nuclear weapons at last week’s national conference. But it would be wrong to imagine the issue’s gone away. Nuclear weapons are becoming more prominent in a more contested world. Australians, like others, are naturally apprehensive about the future. The government must become more articulate…
“Big Chinese Army Led by Woman Is Defeated by Government,” The Province (Vancouver). March 13, 1931. Page 20.
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SHANGHAI, March 13 - (UP) - Three thousand Chinese bandits, led by a sister of General Ho Lung, notorious Communist, were defeated today in a fierce battle with government troops. The woman commander had started with her forces to attack the town of Lachih. Crossing the Hupeh-Honan border, she was met by Nationalist soldiers of the 48th division, under General Hsu Yuan-Chan. In the ensuing fight there were many casualties and the bandits were routed.