Blinken tells China: Spy balloon flight must ‘never happen again’
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he warned his Chinese counterpart that the spy balloon that traveled across much of the United States earlier this month “can never happen again.”
Blinken met with Wang Saturday night at the international security conference in Munich — their first face-to-face meeting since US fighter jets downed the balloon off the The two met for about an hour at the annual security conference, a sit-down that came shortly after Wang accused the UN, noting it was “absurd” that it violated international customs.
“What we’ve seen over the past years is, of course, some political and rhetorical support, even some nonlethal support. But we are very concerned that China is considering providing lethal support to Russia in its aggression against Ukraine,” America’s top diplomat said. “Publicly, they present themselves as a country striving for peace in Ukraine. But privately, as I said, we’ve seen already over these past months the provision of nonlethal assistance that does go directly to aiding and abetting Russia’s war effort,” Blinken said.
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