Spy balloon: 'China testing, pushing things further'

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A Chinese high altitude balloon was shot down by the U.S. military after spending a week traversing the continental United States. Ivan Kanapathy tells Taiwan Talks host Yin Khvat that the suspected spy balloon incident doesn't change the trajectory of U.S.-China relations. But it may accelerate what was "probably already coming anyway." Ivan is Vice President of Beacon Global Strategies, a Senior Associate and Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), formerly U.S. National Security Council director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and deputy senior director for Asian affairs. He also served as a military attache at the American Institute in Taiwan and was an F-18 naval flight officer.