Is China Spying on All The Farmland They Just Bought

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When Peter and Eric open this week’s show by talking about balloons and popcorn, you might be imagining wide-eyed little children at the county fair, not a sneaky communist regime committing economic and military espionage on America. But that’s what popcorn and balloons mean here at The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer. Of course, the big story of the past week was Communist Chinese government’s spy balloon that floated across the US through Montana and 10 other states before being shot down by a missile fired by an F-22 fighter jet off the coast of Myrtle Beach, SC. Not since 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite shot into Earth’s orbit, has a foreign government’s flight activity so captured attention and rattled so many Americans.

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.0	Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Bidens.
0:12.0	Investigations that matter.
0:14.0	If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma?
0:19.0	I don't know. I don't know. Probably not. But that's, you know, I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't fired. The only entities, the only people that would report on this, and Peter Schweizer, who deserves a medal of freedom in my view. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the
0:40.5	Drill Down, where we relentlessly expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington,
0:46.7	D.C. Seated by my side as a co-host of this program, Eric Eggers. Eric, good to see you.
0:51.3	Hey, it's always great to see you, Peter. The only time we seem to get
0:55.0	together is the confines of this small room. We're going to talk about some very important national
1:01.1	security issues today. But before we get to that, I have to ask you a question. What is your
1:05.5	general attitude towards popcorn and balloons? I'm wildly pro both popcorn and balloons. I was actually
1:12.9	thinking about this the other day. I think for your money, you can buy your children thousands
1:18.3	of dollars worth of equipment. Yeah. But a 30 cent balloon will entertain them for far longer
1:24.1	than anything else. Well, you're not alone because apparently the Chinese like balloons and popcorn as well.
1:31.2	We are going to, of course, talk about the Chinese spy balloon that slowly drifted across the United States.
1:38.5	But we're also going to talk about other aspects of the China threat, including their efforts to smug, smug, to smuggle.
1:48.3	But they did it smugly.
1:49.7	So, you know, they're so arrogant, those Chinese popcorn smugglers.
1:54.6	They actually smuggled some seeds, some genetically modified seeds in popcorn out of the United States, which was a huge
2:03.4	boon for them.
2:04.8	So we're going to talk about these issues, but I also want to talk in the backdrop against
2:08.6	this because we are, in fact, the Government Accountability Institute, why it is we don't seem
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