Blinken tells China its spy balloon was ‘irresponsible’ after canceling Beijing trip

CNBC ^ | February 3, 2023 | By Christina Wilkie

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken indefinitely postponed what was to be an already tense trip to China on Friday, citing a Chinese reconnaissance balloon moving east across the United States that posed a threat to national security.

Instead, he told China’s director of Central Foreign Affairs Office, Wang Yi, in a phone call Friday that the balloon was an “irresponsible act and a clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law that undermined the purpose of the trip,” according to a readout of the discussion.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Incompetent

[Right Brother]

Yet it is still aloft.

[WKUHilltopper]

Spy balloon my ass! Dry run for a balloon delivered EMP.

[Bobalu]

This thing drifted over my barn yesterday, it scared the dogs and the hens have stopped laying.

This afternoon I found bags full of poorly made counterfeit mail-in-ballots scattered over the soybean field...

[NWFree]

That’ll show them

[Sacajaweau]

It may be “loaded”...anthrax?? what else??

[LeoWindhorse]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSlTQmDLx4

[Sacajaweau]

Why is it a violation of sovereignty?? We have fly over rules...

[llevrok]

Much like the Monty Python's Black Knight

[Ebenezer]

“Irresponsible”.....

Blinken might as well put on a lisp and say to China in the whiniest manner: “That wathn’t nithe!” What a POS government we have under Biden (or whoever is running the show in D.C.)!

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Well now, that’ll learn `em!

Incompetence run amok

[Night Hides Not]

You got that right!

[FreeReign]

Blinken tells China its spy balloon was ‘irresponsible’ after canceling Beijing trip.

That'll show 'em.

[ProudDeplorable]

Blinken tells China its spy balloon was ‘irresponsible’ after canceling Beijing trip

I'm sure China really cares what we think.

[brownsfan]

Perhaps this is a test to gauge America’s resolve.

On to Taiwan!

[FamiliarFace]

Wynken, Blinken, and Nod will absolutely send a sternly-worded follow up note.

[bankwalker]

I thought this was the Bee

[Right Brother]

So, what happens if dozens appear across the country, potentially carrying nuclear or germ weapons? Apparently, the development of Chinese and Russian ICBMs was unnecessary.

[EEGator]

You should be more concerned with soy consumption…

[caww]

The fact Biden didn’t shoot it down China figures since they got away with invading US airspace - taking Taiwan will be a piece of cake under this administration.