#StateThinking: Balloon diplomacy fails for both the #PRC and the Biden Administration. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
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🗓️ 8 February 2023
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#StateThinking: Balloon diplomacy fails for both the #PRC and the Biden Administration. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/world/asia/china-balloon-xi-jinping.html
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| 0:41.7 | The balloon. The balloon over America. The balloon over South America. Chinese balloon. |
| 0:48.4 | The question marks by balloon meteorological research. The foreign ministry in Beijing |
| 0:55.0 | commenting first meteorological balloon. You've overreacted commenting second. There will |
| 1:01.1 | be a retaliation commenting now third. I go to a report from military news. This is of |
| 1:07.5 | the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mouning. China said Tuesday it quote will Mouning |
| 1:13.8 | quote. Resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests over the shooting down |
| 1:18.4 | of a suspected Chinese spy balloon. Mouning went on to say that it was an unmanned |
| 1:24.9 | airship and she criticized the US for overreacting rather than adopting a calm, professional |
| 1:32.4 | manner. I welcome Mary Kisle, the executive vice president of Stevens Incorporated. Importantly, |
| 1:39.4 | former senior advisor to the Secretary of State who's been in all the rooms of all the |
| 1:44.8 | diplomatic channels these last years and has listened to diplomatic language very carefully |
| 1:50.5 | translated into English. In addition, Mary was many years for the Wall Street Journal |
| 1:55.1 | editorial page in China. Mary, a very good evening to you. This requires tea leave reading |
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