Sec. Blinken met with a senior Chinese diplomat at the Munich Security Conference, a State Dept. spokesperson says.
Feb. 18, 2023, 8:28 PM UTCSecretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday met with a senior Chinese diplomat at a conference in Munich, a State Department spokesperson said.
The U.S. and China exchanged strong words after the ballon was downed off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4, with China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressing in a statement its “strong dissatisfaction and protest over the use of force” by the U.S. Earlier Thursday, Biden delivered his first remarks about the Chinese balloon and three unidentified objects flying above North America that were downed by the U.S. military. One was shot down Feb. 10 over Alaska, another was shot down Feb. 11 over Canada, and a third was shot down over Lake Huron on Feb. 12.
Biden said that the U.S. still doesn't know what the three other objects over North America, which were also shot down by the military this week, were. But he suggested that the U.S. intelligence community believes they didn't have nefarious purposes.
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