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Your ally? we send a balloon through their continent and they dont do anything? one of the first things that happened with the biden administration, they were humiliate by the chinese in anchorage, alaska. they destroyed drones in international waters of ours? 2001 they forced down and rammed a spy plane. they confiscated the plane. in their way of thinking our relationship is asymmetrical and they can do whatever they want. and this administration could have taken this thing down as it approach...

Which says lets go after the united states. and above all, take back tie juan which the chinese consider their sovereign territory and theyll keep pushing until we stop them. >> not that they care all that much about their credibility in the united states. if theyre going to say this is just a weather balloon and then it is shot down, and he pulled the wreckage out of the ocean and it says otherwise. i suppose that secretary of state antony blinken could go right back to the chinese and say, oka...

Guardrails to prevent any escalation of any future conflict. and of course, that has now been put on the back burner. they are both saying — both sides — that they are open to rescheduling anthony blinken�*s visit. but mr blinken made quite clear that before that happens, the balloon has to be done with. and president biden, when he was asked the question about where this leaves us—sino relations, he opted not to reply — do we think that well hearfrom him again? well, thats right, and ...

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Been cancelled? i know that you said china wanted to be focusing a bit more perhaps domestically. it is always better but they speak then not speak. i think there was always going to be a difficulty in this trip had secretary of state blinken gone to china. what china wants is a timeout from friction. that is not the us wants. it wants or a floor comment on some rules for communication such that we can continue to pursue what resident biden wants to call extreme competition with china, while low...

U.S. military fighter aircraft shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon as it floated off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, drawing to a close a dramatic saga that shone a ...

I got an email from the government when they were alleged to have stolen the employee data from the government accountability office. i was in that one too. this is likely not the first time they sent a balloon over here. these things have probably been flying over our air space for a long time while they humiliate us. you know why the china balloon story is such a big deal? because some eagle-eyed citizen caught it. its just right there. this wasnt -- you see what im trying to get at here? this...

Find. >> they want to get all the evidence and get it quickly and learn what the chinese were up to. thank you very much. joining us now cnn military analyst of the u.s. air force colonel cedric leyten. amazing video as fighter jets shot down with a single missile this spy balloon. watch this. >> they just shot it. you see the smoke coming from it? >> all right, colonel, talk to me about the kind of train these pilots undergo to make such a targeted shot deflating the balloon, but apparently lea...

Interrupt communications and to what end in and secondly, we could take advantage of our own capability as theyre flying over. so i think the questions will have to be when did we know that this did not pose a significant or any military or national security threat? when did we cover that and decide for ourselves we could wait until it got to a safer place to take it out? i think those are the kinds of questions we have to ask and then have answered. >> im sure the u.s. military and intelligence...