What Was That Chinese Balloon Really Up To?
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Did the Chinese Government Know It Was Going Up?
Did the Chinese government know it was going up now? Did they order it to go up now? Do you have entities that work on their own time scale? Perhaps there'd been the intention to send up surveillance balloons around now. But no one thought to send a memo to the organization that does this to say perhaps don't do it at this point in time. And so no one stopped it. So whether this was designed to happen now as a message from the central government, that's really unclear. We'll actually really never know for sure.
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