chinese surveillance balloon

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: Of course, what we're talking about right now is the balloon, which was made for television. It is inconvenient, the timing for a few different reasons. First of all, because you have the State of the Union coming up tomorrow. And as a consequence, President Biden is going to have to address it in a very public way, and therefore it puts more of a chill in US-China relations. Secondly, it came right before Secretary of State Blinken's planned trip to Beijing.