The Chinese spy balloon saga led to the abrupt cancellation of a planned trip by Secretary of State Tony Blinken to Beijing and threatens to further derail the relationship between the U.S. and China.
U.S. divers are now searching the waters off the coast of South Carolina for remnants of the downed balloon to learn more about its mission. A second Chinese balloon has been spotted in Latin America. It’s widely known that the U.S. and China have been conducting surveillance on each other for years, using satellites, hacking, spies and other means.
We’re joined now by Nicholas Bequelin. He is a visiting fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, previously worked at Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.Nicholas Bequelin, if you could start off by just going through what happened this weekend, both the downing of the surveillance satellite, which is, I think, believed to be about three buses long, and also Blinken deciding to cancel his meeting in Beijing with President Xi?That’s right.
And again, you know, the question is: All right, if the U.S.
So, the fact that China aligns itself or sort of has this fake neutrality with Russia is a concern. But how do you address it? Do you address it by trying to convince China to peel off the support to Russia and to Putin, or do you just declare them as enemies of the same ilk and refuse to speak to them? I think that’s one of the questions that has to be asked, and we haven’t seen much from this from the U.S. administration at the moment.So, Taiwan is really a huge issue.
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