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The Chinese balloon; an economic soft landing; and Ukraine’s hopes of retaking Crimea

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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The Obama Administration Should Have Let the Balloon Go

I think there's an opportunity in letting the balloon go. This reminds me of the Dubai ports controversy, which you will remember, but some of our viewers won't. In 2006, a Dubai company was taking over the leasing of the LA port. We had this massive collective freak out. It didn't allow it to happen. Of course, by the way, people probably don't know, that the port of Delaware is currently run by another Dubai company. The administration clearly put out the fact that three such balloons crossed the United States during Trump's presidency because he said, you know, we should shoot it down. He was urging the people of Montana to take their own muskets and

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