Secretary of state calls the incident in US airspace a ‘clear violation of US sovereignty and international law’
Sat 4 Feb 2023 03.04 GMTA second Chinese spy balloon was reportedly flying over Latin America, according to the Pentagon, in comments that came as the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken,after the intrusion of a separate high-altitude Chinese balloon into US airspace.
In South Korea on Friday, Blinken said he had spoken with Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, and “made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in US airspace is a clear violation of US sovereignty and international law”.Blinken said, however, that he had told Wang that “the United States is committed to diplomatic engagement with China and that I plan to visit Beijing when conditions allow”.
Blinken would have been the first US secretary of state to visit China since October 2018, signalling a thaw after a period of friction under former president Donald Trump. A White House spokesperson said there was a consensus among President Joe Biden and his advisers that Blinken should not travel to China this weekend and stressed the balloon does not pose a military or physical threat.
Republican senator Jerry Moran said on Friday he had received reports of the balloon over north-eastern Kansas. The balloon had “limited additive value from an intelligence collection perspective”, the defence official told reporters on condition of anonymity.
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