Beijing says it will ‘not accept any groundless conjecture’ after balloons spotted over US and Latin America
Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state under Donald Trump and former CIA director, said on Saturday that Blinken’s cancellation of his planned trip to Beijing was “not remotely enough”, describing the incident as an “intentional incursion” into US airspace.
He added: “We should defeat this Chinese spying effort. We can do it, it’s not that complicated. Pull it off, pull it down and let the Chinese Communist party know that they’re not going to walk all over us.” He added: “The whole world is watching to see if the United States is serious. The Chinese are probing, they are prodding, they are trying to figure out how far they can go.”
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