{"id":569071,"date":"2023-02-05T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=569071"},"modified":"2023-02-05T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T17:46:00","slug":"the-chinese-spy-balloon-story-as-manufactured-crisis-an-alternative-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=569071","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese &#8216;Spy Balloon&#8217; Story As Manufactured Crisis: An Alternative Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Previous constant headlines of the Ukraine-Russia war were put on pause Friday into Saturday as the American public&#8217;s attention and discourse got temporarily consumed by the bizarre Chinese &#8216;spy balloon&#8217; saga, which grew more dramatic by the hour until it was shot down by the Pentagon over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;I took a bit of time to dissect the \u201cspy balloon\u201d story &#8211; both how it is portrayed in the US and China\u2019s response,&#8221; Bertrand begins a lengthy thread. As you&#8217;ll see, the more you think about it, the more stunned you get at the sheer absurdity of the whole thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>we instead choose as a society to incite fear and hostility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/chinese-spy-balloon-story-manufactured-crisis-alternative-reading\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/chinese-spy-balloon-story-manufactured-crisis-alternative-reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous constant headlines of the Ukraine-Russia war were put on pause Friday into Saturday as the American public&#8217;s attention and discourse got temporarily consumed by the bizarre Chinese &#8216;spy balloon&#8217; saga, which grew more dramatic by the hour until it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=569071\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}