Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You

The Chinese have a tale of surveillance woe.

Wait. What? The Chinese don't like America doing to China what China does to its own people?

China is upset with the extent that American ELINT (Electric Intelligence) aircraft, especially the RC-135W and E-8C, and a growing number of UAVs, are operating over the South China Sea and near Chinese naval bases and coastal airbases to monitor Chinese military electronics on land and aboard warships and naval aircraft. The American ELINT aircraft operate outside Chinese territorial waters (22 kilometers from the coast) but within the EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) which extends 360 kilometers from the coast. 

As a superpower we've been learning -- You'll forgive us if we boast -- And we've now become an expert. On the subject we prepare for most.

I say we follow the Chinese example and give the Chinese Communist Party a poor social credit score that punishes them in the international community for bad behavior.