The US missile that downed a Chinese surveillance balloon Saturday off the South Carolina coast may have taken with it efforts to repair US-China relations. But David Rennie, the Beijing bureau chief for The Economist, tells The World’s Marco Werman that optimists might see the incident as a “wake-up call” for officials from both sides to create mechanisms for crisis management.
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