The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, postponed a planned trip to Beijing after the balloon was spotted. China – which claims the balloon was engaged in weather observation and had been blown off course – called the US’s response “unacceptable and irresponsible”.
After Republican politicians criticized the Biden White House for not immediately shooting the balloon down, Pentagon officials said that China had sent three balloons over US territory during Donald Trump’s time in the Oval Office.
“We were able to go back and look at the historical patterns,” Sullivan said, which revealed “multiple instances” of Chinese balloons entering US airspace during the Trump administration.
The photos or it didn't happen. Just making up their own version of history
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