


His spokesman, Ned Price, said in a statement that Blinken “made clear the United States will not stand for any violation of our sovereignty, and that the PRC’s high-altitude surveillance balloon program – which has intruded into the airspace of over 40 countries across five continents – has been exposed to the world,” Price said.īlinken had canceled a trip to Beijing earlier this month due to the balloon incident, which has become a major issue of contention between the two countries. “I condemned the incursion of the PRC surveillance balloon and stressed it must never happen again,” Blinken said in a tweet, referring to the People’s Republic of China. shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken sending the message that Beijing’s surveillance program had been “exposed to the world.”īlinken and Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, held the hourlong talks in Munich, where they were attending an international security conference, according to the U.S. MUNICH (AP) – The top diplomats from the United States and China met on Saturday in the first high-level contact between their countries since the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the 2023 Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Feb.
