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#194 Chinese Spy Balloons Travel Over US, Angering Americans

China Unscripted

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Why the US Government Decided to Make a Bigger Deal?

Matt Welch: We don't know if this is really out of the ordinary because like of how long it's been staying over an Air Force base in Montana or do you know what I mean? Like we actually don't know. Why, why this time did the US government decide to make such a, to make a bigger deal? Because civilians spotted it. It's possible that somebody lower down made a stupid decision. Or maybe during due to inter party power struggles that someone wanted to mess up this meeting between Xi Jinping and the US.

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