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#PRC:The balloon hints that the #PRC satellites are inadequate. George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#PRC:The balloon hints that the #PRC satellites are inadequate. George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures.
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/mysterious-balloons/

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0:41.4

One Chinese surveillance ballooned down off the South Carolina. Three other incidents not

0:48.1

confirmed in any fashion. Concentrating on the one down of South Carolina. I welcome

0:53.1

George Friedman, the Founder and Chairman of Geopolitical Futures, writing about the balloon

0:59.3

and what we've learned so far about Chinese ambitions, Chinese technology, Chinese reach.

1:06.6

George a very good evening to you. The surveillance equipment that so far has been confirmed

1:11.4

off of South Carolina is consistent with building a database about what. We're told now that

1:19.2

the US intelligence tracked that balloon over Guam and then it steered north towards the

1:25.7

solutions and then it passed over Canada and entered the US continental US at Montana,

1:33.7

passed over Nebraska and passed over Missouri and then went on to South Carolina.

1:38.8

Noting that we have a major military base in the event of a war with Taiwan in Guam,

1:44.0

something that we have an ICBM base in Montana, noting that the strat com itself is in Nebraska,

1:50.3

noting that we have a B2 strategic bomber base in Missouri. All this adds up to a pattern.

1:55.5

What do we learn about the Chinese and this pattern, George? Good evening to you. Good evening.

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