airspace, that was all relatively slickly planned and happened relatively quickly, so you would imagine a0 minutes or so after it being shut down the recovery operation is well under way. we haven t had any updates on the state of the recovery but it is absolutely crucial because now they will be looking at exactly how they can make an assessment of the level of threat, of what this balloon was doing, of what it was trying to achieve, if it was gathering any useful at all, and pending those kind of answers, hopefully you will get a better sense then if this was deliberate from china, whether this was a deliberate provocation, whether there was a little motive behind it or whether it was more along the lines an accident and then potentially using an accident for some kind of cover, all those kinds of questions and speculation which is very difficult to know, but some
as it becomes much more muscular in their policy towards china. their policy towards china. that is really interesting, their policy towards china. that is really interesting, jack, their policy towards china. that is really interesting, jack, and - their policy towards china. that is really interesting, jack, and as i their policy towards china. that is | really interesting, jack, and as you were talking there, something related to that, something came through from reuters, chinese balloon was not a weather balloon, it was a spy balloon, china intended to spy on sensitive military sites, thatis to spy on sensitive military sites, that is from the us defence official, according to reuters. that is very clear, very character categorical, because the speculation has been on the spectrum from it is just a harmless meteorological balloon that blew off course and then this huge international incident has happened because of it and it is all a bit embarrassing and could have been avo
flights because we know the faa, the organisation that controls the essbase over the us, they were saying, right, it is actually now safe and fine to reopen the airspace in and around south carolina so initially they closed it, they gave the order of three airports on the coast there, no aircraft coming in, no aircraft coming out, that then gave them the space and the time to get the us fighterjet in to follow that balloon and take the balloon down. and, so, this is the eastern coast of the us there, the blue is the water, the yellow dots are the planes, and the greens are the east coast of the us, and if we can zoom in, we can head into myrtle beach, this will be a test of our producer s geography here, we need to zoom in and try and get to that
test what the reaction times of the taiwanese air forces like. obviously, doing this against the west coast of the united states becomes full with danger, if you decide fly a load of aircraft aircraft was that stretch of territory, you are possibly going to get quite a hostile response. 50. get quite a hostile response. so, these were get quite a hostile response. 50, these were some get quite a hostile response. so, these were some of the questions are some of the potential reasons people have been chewing over in the last couple of days and that speculation, i m afraid, delicate yet more intense now that we know that the decision has been taken to actually down it. i want to bring you a couple of new lies coming to us from the reuters news agency a couple of new lines. the order was issued on wednesday to take down the balloon. that is interesting because he has made some criticism from political opponents mainly in the us from for not acting sooner, we
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