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Biden excuses China’s spy balloon flight as Blinken visits Beijing
The New York Post ^ | 06/17/2023 | Mary Linge

Posted on 06/17/2023 12:53:36 PM PDT by thegagline

President Biden made excuses for China Saturday, saying that President Xi Jinping never meant to fly a spy balloon over sensitive American military sites earlier this year.

“I don’t think the leadership knew where it was, and knew what was in it, and knew what was going on,” Biden told reporters as he headed to Philadelphia for his first campaign rally of the 2024 election. “I think it was more embarrassing than it was intentional.”

The conciliatory comments came as Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued a two-day visit to Beijing, his first diplomatic trip there since he called off a planned trip as the balloon made its uncontested three-day journey across US airspace.

“I’m hoping that over the next several months I’ll be meeting with Xi again, and talking about legitimate differences we have but also how … to get along,” Biden added. *** Last week, his administration admitted that China has built a spy base in Cuba — after first denying the story — and Blinken was reportedly scolded by Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Tuesday during a pre-trip phone call.

Beijing has been illegally militarizing reefs in the South China Sea, is intensifying surveillance of Americans, and has repeatedly threatened to invade democratic Taiwan to forcefully “reunify” it with mainland China — with little response from Biden. ***

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; china; chinaownsbiden; kowtow
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Is there any doubt that Biden is the Manchurian President?
1 posted on 06/17/2023 12:53:36 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Traitorius degenerate POS


2 posted on 06/17/2023 12:56:00 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: beethovenfan

Traitorus


3 posted on 06/17/2023 12:56:28 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: thegagline

No.


4 posted on 06/17/2023 12:56:48 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was 4a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: beethovenfan

Still not right. Traitorous.


5 posted on 06/17/2023 12:57:08 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: thegagline

Where’s the report on the sensor and communication hardware sets from the recovered wreckage?


6 posted on 06/17/2023 1:03:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: thegagline

When Biden is talking, he is lying, always. Incapable of truth.


7 posted on 06/17/2023 1:04:34 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Chode

You -—Shirley-— have the balloons bouncing Joe on the stairs

I lost the link oops


8 posted on 06/17/2023 1:05:31 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: thegagline

“I don’t think I knew where it was, and knew what was in it, and knew what was going on,” Biden told reporters as he headed to Philadelphia for his first campaign rally of the 2024 election. “I think it was more ice cream than it was god save the queens.”


9 posted on 06/17/2023 1:13:33 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: thegagline
Little people. Can't we all just ... get along?


10 posted on 06/17/2023 1:15:27 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: beethovenfan

RE: Traitorous degenerate POS

And he has a bad side, too.


But balloons are so pretty. All those colors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-UQ0-8ktAM

P.S. I saw the Fifth Dimension in person. Marilyn McCoo in addition to having a fantastic singing voice, radiated beauty.
https://cwima.org/speaker/marilyn-mccoo-davis/


11 posted on 06/17/2023 1:24:37 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: thegagline

Yeah right Brandon.....

The Chicoms didn’t have a clue.

You are one despicable human being.


12 posted on 06/17/2023 1:29:48 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: eyedigress

I wonder how much that overfly cost China…


13 posted on 06/17/2023 1:34:49 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. )
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To: eyedigress

Or maybe they were collecting on a prepayment…


14 posted on 06/17/2023 1:36:16 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. )
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To: Paladin2

No biggie. Let the United States fly a balloon across China, just to see how gracious THEY are.


15 posted on 06/17/2023 2:09:34 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: thegagline

He’s a lot more than that every felon has his photo on their living room wall.


16 posted on 06/17/2023 2:27:34 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: thegagline

Disgusting.


17 posted on 06/17/2023 2:30:46 PM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: gov_bean_ counter

China paid for that fly over a long time ago.


18 posted on 06/17/2023 2:33:09 PM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: thegagline

“I think it was more embarrassing than it was intentional.”

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That’s a ridiculous lie, from a compromised administration.


19 posted on 06/17/2023 3:14:03 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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“I don’t think the leadership knew where it was, and knew what was in it, and knew what was going on,”

This describes the Biden Presidency.

20 posted on 06/17/2023 3:32:20 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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