Former Secretary of State Mike Pomeo and diplomat Nikki Haley demanded that the Biden Administration “shoot down” down the Chinese spy balloon that hovered over the central US Friday.
The State Department announced that Blinken’s planned Sunday and Monday meetings with his Chinese counterpart, Qin Gang, would be postponed indefinitely, with one official telling reporters “it would not be conducive or constructive to travel to Beijing right now.”
The balloon was spotted late Thursday over Montana, which is home to one of America’s three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base. As of early Friday afternoon, various sightings put it over northeastern Kansas or northwestern Missouri. Chinese officials have claimed the balloon was a civilian “airship,” used for meteorological research, which had blown off course. However, the US has called the balloon a “surveillance asset” that can be controlled.Share this article:
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