The spy balloon was invariably an attempt at political propaganda against the United States by communist China, according to Arthur Herman, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, director of the Quantum Alliance Initiative, and Pulitzer Prize finalist historian.
“I think it’s very hard not to conclude that, in a way, this was such a brazen act to send a balloon! We’re talking about a balloon [drifting] across the United States, with these sorts of carefully timed stops over U.S. missile bases and military bases. It’s almost a kind of gesture of contempt for its opponent,” said Herman in an interview recorded on Feb. 6 on the “China in Focus” program on NTD, a sister media outlet of The Epoch Times.
