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#PRC: What can a surveillance balloon achieve? Rick Fisher, senior fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#PRC: What can a surveillance balloon achieve? Rick Fisher, senior fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-02-04/drones-satellites-spy-balloons-9038271.html


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Cheat Chang. We welcome Rick Fisher to comment from the International Assessment and Strategy

0:45.0

Center learning of the advantages or disadvantages of a surveillance balloon at 60, 70, 80, 90,000

0:53.3

feet compared to a satellite in lower orbit or a U2 plane about the same scale. U2 plane

1:02.0

famous or infamous for the human missile crisis, but before that there was the incident

1:08.6

of a U2 being brought down over the Soviet Union leading to the disruption of diplomatic

1:14.4

talks between the Eisenhower administration and Nikita Kurschev. Rick, a very good day

1:19.8

to you. What advantages? What disadvantages of a balloon? Thank you.

1:25.7

John, the main advantage for the Chinese today to use this balloon and fly it across the

1:32.2

continental United States is to spark fear. It is, it has been a, just a ghost that has

1:43.6

been floating across the country, galvanizing attention, generating shock. This is what

1:50.2

the Chinese want on the eve of Speaker McCarthy's visit to Taiwan. Any number of perceived

1:58.6

provocations coming out of Taiwan, the balloon is also cheap. We shot it down. They can send

2:06.3

scores of others. And the balloon also has a more ominous purpose. China has about at

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