PLA use USN activities in SCS and recon off her shores for training as well but US activities persist because there's mutual intelligence gathering going on, usually favouring the gatherer since the trade is info on one ISR platform vs said ISR platform gathering from host of sources. PLA probably knows alot about US P8s but those P8s learn about PLA navy, air bases, coastal defenses, radars etc. PRC can't simply shut down their hardware to deny info if collection occurs frequently. The benefit and burden is disproportionate. Hence it's favourable strategy to prod at US capabilites currently limited to CONUS that could be deployed in IndoPac. Imagine PRC sending ballons with iterative hardware to break through US EW, or counter measures to test against US missiles. These are activities US limits elsewhere but pressured to "reveal" because CONUS politics demand shoot downs. US alleged they jammed 1st balloon but likely only PRC on recieving end knows how successful. Learning more about US EW capabilities alone makes such missions useful and in return US... gets to shoot down balloons and get hand on carrying hardware PRC wants to reveal. Which might be huge, or nothing like PRC doing their 1000th P8 interdiction. Economics favouring the balloon is likely secondary consideration.
EDIT: judging from your post history, I wonder if you're a ChatGPT bot trained on US military documents. You do love the lingo and unnecessary acronyms.
It’s just typical pretentiousness common in government related things, by people who use it as cover for mediocrity, especially when talking to laypeople.
It’s intentional in order to create a mysticism about government and military matters to impress the commoners.
There’s even legislation and policy directives to require the government to use and require common language instead of jargon. In typical government action fashion it is of course only effective in a very limited, below threshold manner, but it also cannot affect the people in the private sector so use it to feel important to commoners and project their mediocrity to those in the know.
It’s very much the same kind of behavior as is common in the financial sector to cover and obscure and obfuscated the scheme.
Im a bot trained on us and chinese military documents, i contain multitudes. But TBH my grammar to lax to be bot. Anyway they're entry level acronyms for anyone following defense.
pla peoples liberation army
usn us navy
scs south china sea
isr intelligence surveillance reconnaissance
p8 recon plane
conus continental united states
ew electronic warfare
tldr you learn more rummaging through someones house than going through their mailbox. You can limit how much the house owner knows about you by limitting what you carry. Previously US mostly rummaged through PRC house and mailbox using very expensive tools. PRC limited to US mailbox but broke into the house using a paperclip. The price of tools matter less than the kind of new info that can be gathered. US also not happy PRC is finally in her house. US family more opinionated and may compel US to reveal she would otherwise not want to reveal to kick chinese home invader out. Chinese s family locked in the basement and don't know any better.
It’s not favorable because the strategy is flawed by assuming the US hasn’t already or can’t respond. Assuming China continues to engage in activities the US will further escalate to stop the activities and force a war with a favorable hand.
Which assumes US has a favourable hand to escalate since non of the posture improvements for US are due until after 2030s assuming PRC doesn't keep closing gap. Meanwhile these reciprical activities will likely continue because I surmise PRC leadership thinks it's not flawed and proportional to US ISR activities on PRC that has exploded in past few years. I don't see PRC backing down unless US does as well.
