moves to the east. and we could wake up here in a couple days and have it loitering over washington d.c. and then i think we ll realize the mistake that we made. which, just to even imagine that moment. ian, let me ask you because, to general moore s point, they had the opportunity to shoot it down over montana. and u.s. military was aware of it being there before the public was. it was when the public was aware that this suddenly became a story. so they didn t shoot it down when they could have done so without it being noticed. so, what do you think is happening here? first of all, if it was found to be loitering over washington, d.c., as your other guest just suggested, that would put very clear the lie that the chinese are making that they don t have control over it, they apologized over it that it s doing climate experiments. i m not saying we believe that in the united states. i m just saying that that would be a very substantially escalatory move from the chinese government,
engage in a charm offensive by reengaging at high levels with american officials, including saying that there was going to be a xi jinping direct meeting with tony blinken going over to beijing. that certainly wouldn t have been expected or normal. you saw that with the recent vice chair s comments in europe over the past couple of weeks that they really want to show that they re normalizing, engaging and all of the rest. and the timing of this could not have been worse from china s perspective. so i think this is unfortunate for them. i think there s no question that biden has to react. you are right that president biden wanted to continue with that blinken trip. but as soon as this became public, it was very clear with the strong and bipartisan outcry, democrats and republicans across congress said that they were going to cancel this trip. they were hoping that nobody would look up or look out the window of their plane. that s clearly sort of where they were. general moore, i know
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