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#Ukraine: Reportedly not the first suspect #PRC spy balloon over North America.. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

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🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#Ukraine: Reportedly not the first suspect #PRC spy balloon over North America.. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/chinas-spy-balloon-over-montana-is-part-of-a-larger-more-troubling-pattern

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This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:38.0

Here's John Batchler.

0:41.0

Balloons in the news, balloons, the Secretary of State,

0:44.0

cancelling his expected trip to the People's Republic of China

0:48.0

in response to the discovery of a balloon that looks very much like a spy opportunity,

0:55.0

but at the same time, the foreign ministry of People's Republic of China is saying it's a weather balloon, blue off course.

1:01.0

November 3rd, 1944,

1:04.0

Japan released Fusan Bakudan, or balloon bombs, into the Pacific Jet Stream.

1:10.0

These carried four small bombs and 130 pound high-explosive bombs.

1:15.0

Japan's latest weapon, the balloon bombs were meant to cause damage and spread panic in the United States.

1:20.0

The Japanese decided to make use of balloon bombs in retaliation for the due little raid.

1:26.0

I welcome Henry Sikowski, the Executive Director of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center,

1:31.0

to apprise us what we know now about the People's Republic of China balloons.

1:37.0

However, there are no more accidental than worthy Fusan Bakudan in 1944.

1:42.0

What do they mean?

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