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JUST IN: The suspected Chinese spy balloon seen over the U.S. 'continues to move eastward,' Pentagon officials say, and that it 'is currently over the center of the continental United States.'

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Gallagher said he believed Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made"the right call" postponing his trip to China over the controversy."I think we had plenty of options to shoot it down or even better, find a way to reduce its altitude and capture it so we can get a look at the instrumentation," he told ABC News' Alexis Christoforous.Email this article

"After consolations with our interagency partners, as well as with Congress, we have concluded that the conditions are not right at the moment for Secretary Blinken to travel to China," the official added. "We will maintain open lines of communication with the PRC to address our concerns about this ongoing incident and to responsibly manage the competition between our countries," the official said.

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