The top diplomats from the United States and China have met in the first high-level contact between their countries since the US shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago. 9News
have met in the first high-level contact between their countries since the US 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.”
His spokesman, Ned Price, said in a statement that Blinken also told the Chinese official that his nation'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.” Blinken "underscored the importance of maintaining diplomatic dialogue and open lines of communication at all times.”US President Joe Biden speaks about a high-altitude Chinese balloon and three other objects that were recently shot down by US fighter jets during a White House briefing on February 16.
Beijing insists the white orb shot down off the Carolina coast on February 4 was just an errant civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that went off course due to winds and had only limited “self-steering” capabilities.
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