Perhaps the best evidence the Chinese balloon was a spy device is their failure to provide clear evidence that it was not.
How could they do that? Easy. Take a collection of foreign journalists to visit the weather agency that launched it. Take them to the factory where it was made. Let them observe the launch of the next one, complete with souvenir photos of the journalists standing in front of the balloon. If it was an innocent device they could easily prove that beyond any doubt.
But they have not. As far as I know anyway. Any stories in the foreign press about such a visit to the weather balloon factory?
How could they do that? Easy. Take a collection of foreign journalists to visit the weather agency that launched it. Take them to the factory where it was made. Let them observe the launch of the next one, complete with souvenir photos of the journalists standing in front of the balloon. If it was an innocent device they could easily prove that beyond any doubt.
But they have not. As far as I know anyway. Any stories in the foreign press about such a visit to the weather balloon factory?