Blinken had canceled a trip to Beijing earlier this month due to the balloon incident, which has become a major issue of contention between the two countries.
MUNICH — The top diplomats from the United States and China met on Saturday in the first high-level contact between their countries since the U.S. 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.” earlier this month due to the balloon incident, which has become a major issue of contention between the two countries. A meeting at the conference in Germany had been widely anticipated.
Biden says the U.S. has no indication that the objects shot down over the weekend are tied to China's spy balloon program. on providing assistance to Russia to help with its war against Ukraine, including assisting Moscow with evading sanctions the West has imposed on Russia. used mainly for meteorological research that went off course due to winds and had only limited “self-steering” capabilities.
Wang also accused the U.S. of denying China’s economic advances and seeking to impede its further development.
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