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Would Shooting Down Chinese Spy Balloon Really Have Posed a Risk?

State Secretary Blinken cancels a trip to Beijing as big questions loom, including whether America’s military has the capability to shoot down the spy balloon.

AP/Kiichiro Sato, file
While the Chips act was aimed at protecting America from overreliance on goods that originate in Communist China’s factories, it could instead end up damaging the economy of our ally, Taiwan.  AP/Kiichiro Sato, file
ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

The Pentagon reportedly knew for days that a large unmanned Chinese spy balloon was floating high above American airspace, and well before its proximity to an altitude from which it could have impacted commercial aviation triggered a brief ground stop at Montana’s Billings Logan International Airport on Wednesday. 

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ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

Mr. Grant, a California native who has written for many major newspapers including France-Soir and the New York Times and worked in television at Paris (France24) and Tel Aviv (i24news), is now based in Athens as a staff reporter and editor of The New York Sun.

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