US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken held the first face-to-face meeting with a senior Chinese official since the Biden administration shot down a Chinese spy balloon off South Carolina on February 4, the carrier said. US State Department spokesman Ned Price. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
“The Secretary of State directly pointed out the unacceptable violation of American sovereignty and international law by a high-altitude reconnaissance balloon in American airspace, emphasizing that such an irresponsible act should never happen again,” Price said in a statement.
Price added that Blinken had made it clear to the Chinese side that the United States “will not tolerate any violation of its sovereignty, and that the PRC’s high-altitude balloon reconnaissance program, which has already violated the airspace of more than forty countries on five continents, has become known to the whole world. “.
