#PRC: What does the balloon incident mean for the reopening of China? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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#PRC: What does the balloon incident mean for the reopening of China? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/chinese-spy-balloon-fallout-roils-washington-and-beijing.html
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor. Gordon Chang, my colleague and co-host is here |
| 0:40.8 | and we turn from talking about the balloon over North America to talking about she over |
| 0:46.8 | Eurasia. Gordon, the relationship between Moscow and Beijing since the beginning of the |
| 0:53.1 | war in Ukraine has been both hard to understand and at the same time useful for both capitals |
| 1:00.1 | to deny that there's a relationship. However, there are reports that the Deputy Foreign |
| 1:05.8 | Minister of China has now traveled to or is about to travel to Moscow. The reason this |
| 1:12.4 | may be significant is that she is said to be planning a state visit to Moscow and we're |
| 1:19.7 | within days of the one year anniversary of the attack on Ukraine. Ukraine routinely now |
| 1:26.0 | is telling us that Russia is planning something big and they don't sound pleased about it. |
| 1:31.4 | So I put all these dots on the map and I try to connect them. Is it useful for Beijing? |
| 1:36.8 | As you say, they live in an alternate reality. Is it useful for Beijing to project that it |
| 1:43.3 | is friendly or has a relationship with Moscow and do nothing or, and this report from the |
| 1:50.3 | Washington, from the Wall Street Journal, China is providing technology that Moscow's military |
| 1:54.8 | needs to prosecute the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, despite an international cordon of sanctions |
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