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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

6/7/18 A&G Hr. 3 Sonic Attacks in China

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Similar to an experience that occured in Cuba, US embassy officials have experienced "sonic attacks", with symptoms that are troubling. WaPo China Bureau Chief Simon Denyer talked to Jack & Joe from Beijing with the details. Plus, Joe demonstrates why he's a master traveller.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're live in New York City, you know, they say if you can make it here, you can make it

0:29.0

most places. I believe that's where it's on ghosts. Correct. Once you've made it anywhere, come

0:33.7

here and make it again. I, or something like that. Don't recall. But we're speaking at a talk

0:40.0

radio conference. I want to speak more about that later as we are on on a very important panel.

0:45.3

Yeah. Oh, yeah. We'll be the voice of reason we will be instructing the rest of the industry on

0:49.7

how to do their jobs. That's, I mean, that's a summary. I have no information on what's about to

0:56.8

happen to you. I think I do. Yeah. My apologies. I blame myself because, yeah, Simon, so does

1:04.0

everybody else. Simon, Daniel of the Washington Post is reporting on this, the sonic attacks on

1:08.4

diplomats in China, similar to what happened in Cuba. And we didn't understand it then we don't

1:14.8

understand it now. Simon, Daniel is indeed the China bureau chief in Beijing and joins us now.

1:19.3

Mr. Daniel, how are you, sir? I'm very well. Good morning, guys. Good morning,

1:24.1

Neil. Thank you. To what extent are we confident that something

1:32.4

insidious has truly happened as opposed to, I think we're all a men of the world. We've seen

1:39.8

examples of human psychology kind of running a mock in people starting to imagine things. How

1:44.8

certain are we that something's happened? I wish I could answer that question. I really do. I

1:51.5

mean, it is a complete mystery at the moment. What's going on? I do think that there are a lot of

2:01.4

cases coming to life in quite different places. Cuba, you know, a while ago, beginning in the

2:09.0

fall of 2016 and now in China, it does seem like something is going on. These are, you know,

2:15.4

either reliable people who have professional track records are making it up or

2:22.0

succumbing to some kind of mass hysteria. You know, why would that spread from Cuba to China

2:28.1

in a year and a half? So something's going on. But what that is, we really don't know,

2:37.1

the FBI investigated the Cuba case for more than a year. And at least they're saying they couldn't

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