The balloon incident is still taboo on CCTV's evening news, but lesser outlets that produce English content for an outside audience such as Global Times, are having fun with it.
Presenting US expert (and amateur Freudian)
SCOTT RITTER:
"It's a physical manifestation of US fear!"
"How do we tell the American people...that the greatest capitalist nation...is getting trounced by communists?"
You just told them, Scott!
By the way, who is "we"?
Nice touch: The innocent balloon was labeled "weather balloon" in a previous cartoon. Now it's upgraded to a 'meteorological balloon.'
That should settle the argument.
"fiction-like narrative?"
Global Times gas-lights doubters of balloon's innocence.
Critics must be hysterical, crazy, absurd, etc.
Scott Ritter usefully analyzed it in similar psychological terms.
Another psychological portrait of Uncle Sam.
Global Times has clearly labelled it "weather balloon"
What more proof do you want?
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