In the short term, that's going to cause some problems. The downturn is we're going to have probably hearings where Republicans and Democrats will be angry at the Biden administration for not taking care of this issue earlier. But in the long term, like the US-China relationship has survived a lot. It'll get worse and then it'll go back to its bad state.
The balloon crisis is blown up. Politico’s Alex Ward deflates it for us.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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