Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team faces growing congressional pressure to reveal its analysis of the Chinese spy balloon shot down after violating U.S. airspace earlier this year.
“They have had months to figure [it] out,” Rep. Brad Sherman , a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said during a Tuesday hearing. “And they haven't told you. And they haven't told me what was on the balloon.”Sherman’s questioning underscored bipartisan impatience with the silence that has descended around the spy balloon in the months since its detection cast U.S.-China relations into an uproar.
The balloon proved disruptive in the days following its entry into U.S. airspace, as it caught the attention of a Montana photographer and continued to preoccupy U.S. officials and citizens on the ground who could watch its slow progress through American skies. That spectacle prompted Blinken to postpone a planned trip to meet with Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping, who did not grant an audience again until last month.
That statement drew criticism from Republican lawmakers who implied that Blinken is trying to spare China any further embarrassment in exchange for diplomatic talks. Barr faulted Blinken for declaring the matter “closed,” given the balloon’s trajectory. “There's no ramifications for the CCP for them spying on our most sensitive military sites,” he said. “The American people are outraged by that.”
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