Many reports that China has surveillance embedded in cell tower equipment across the US and in container cranes in every major port. Who knows if they have been behind past cyber attacks on our oil infrastructure and electric grid. We don't hear about it because it's classified/ not diplomatically wise to share that info all the time

Did we learn nothing from the weather balloon circus?

Monitoring the weather = surveiling the weather = spying on the weather = spying = spying on Americans

It's a game of deranged telephone, fueled by the billion-dollar anti-China propaganda industry.

Similarly, did a Chinese OEM implement a SNMP daemon in their gear? Oh no, their literally spying on us1!11

I'm amazed anyone still buys China's "weather balloon" lie. A weather balloon that large and expensive is a major project. It would have a project leader, project webpage, articles and conference papers, sharing of data, government permits for operation, and all kinds of other artifacts that China could trivially point out proving it was a weather balloon. Instead, China has consistently refused to even give a single name or company associated with it. It is the most secretive "weather balloon" I have ever seen.

Buddy, the USAF also shot down weather "spy balloons" from a hobbyist club in the Midwest. You are vastly overestimating the seriousness of this affair.

Buddy, I never said anything about the subsequent balloons. Don’t try to deflect from the point you know I’m making: the first balloon was clearly not a weather balloon.

The US OPM breach.