China Is Here. . .

(China Is Here. . .)

"China is here, Mr. Burton."

They say give credit where credit is due. What does one do when it isn't ? Some 517,000 jobs were added this month and the un-employment rate has fallen to 3.4%. Consumer confidence also emerged with a healthy number. When the number was released this morning, there had been a broad sell-off on Wall Street. Prices have stabilized for the moment and, on cue, President Biden un-equivocally took credit, claiming that it has been his policies like the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act, the things that had caused the inflation in the first place, and making the statement that inflation was all but gone.


If the President wants to think he had something to do with today's report, he is more than welcome. However, there is another issue, today, that might also require his attention. China has a hot air reconnaissance balloon that has been drifting over portions of Montana, where the ICBM fields of Malstrom AFB are arranged and on its present trajectory, will be over similar fields in North Dakota. How much further will this balloon be allowed to travel before some action is taken ? 


The Yellow Peril and China Probrems have been discussed in these pages in the past. One recall the film Big Trouble in Little China, starring Kurt Russell, Jack Burton in other words. "The Chaing Sings. The Wing Kongs. They have been fighting for centuries." These had been two warring factions in San Francisco's Chinatown. China's sense of history has been frequently discussed. When Egg Chen (Victor Wong) Chinatown tour bus driver, and one who also practiced Chinese Black Magic, he did not know how right he was.


China is here and it is not an errant reconnaissance platform. The Chinese has been purchasing farmland, some in proximity to those installations today's "flyover" seems to be viewing and Beijing has promised an investigation on what it has been calling "an accident." Like anybody will believe that. But the question on the minds of a lot of people today is why this vehicle is still airborne, why it has travelled as far as it has and why it will stay in the air, for a few more days.

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