Harsha Kakar Politics in democracies implies targeting the government at every opportunity as part of vote bank politics. How this impacts international ties is of no concern to those involved. India has witnessed it regularly. It was visible in the US when the Chinese balloon overflew the country. It was neither the first balloon to have entered US airspace nor the last. As compared to dedicated satellite monitoring, electronic eavesdropping and elaborate spy networks which function 24X7,the threat posed by … Continue reading The balloon fallout