we welcome you, nicholas bequelin. you can start off by going through what happened this weekend, both the downing of the surveillance satellite -- which is i think believed to be about three buses long -- and also blinken deciding to cancel his meeting in beijing with president xi. >> that's right. i think the u.s.-china relation is really at the lowest point we have seen in decades. what started as an incident of surveillance balloon really has turned io a much bigger issue on the world's geopolitical stage. the balloon was spotted by the u.s. military, which is something that you expect. countries spy on each other. the question we have to ask ourselves is why did the u.s decide to make it public? and in making it public, basically seal the fate of that rekindling of the u.s.-china relationship with a visit by secrety of state blinken to china where he would be meeting with president xi jinping ahead and preparing the ground for a meeting between president biden and president xi jinping. i think once the issue of th