This week, we’ve got a short show focused on the Chinese balloon that became the obsessive focus of American attention from Thursday through Sunday, February 5, when an F-22 shot it out of the sky off of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Gerard DiPippo, a senior fellow with the Economics Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, joins to discuss the incident and its potential fallout.<\/p>\n
We’ll have the transcript for you on the website in a day or so.<\/p>\n
2:27 \u2013Establishing the facts about the Balloon<\/p>\n
4:32 \u2013 Precedents for U.S. reactions to aerial surveillance<\/p>\n
7:36 \u2013 Was the balloon\u2019s flight path intentional?<\/p>\n
9:34 \u2013 Why did the Pentagon go public?<\/p>\n
13:26 \u2013 The thinking behind Blinken\u2019s postponement<\/p>\n
15:47 \u2013 Reactions in U.S. media<\/p>\n
17:19 \u2013 Beijing\u2019s perspective on the U.S. reaction<\/p>\n
20:23 \u2013 How Gerard Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Balloon<\/p>\n
A complete transcript of this podcast is available at TheChinaProject.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Recommendations:<\/strong><\/p>\n Gerard:\u00a0<\/strong>The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>by John Pomfret<\/p>\n