China 'regrets' US air intrusion as Blinken visit in balance

"unintentional" breach of US airspace by what it said was a civilian airship — but the Pentagon called a spy balloon — with a long-planned Beijing visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken hanging in the balance.

"The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into US airspace due to force majeure," it said, using the legal term for an act outside of human control. Lawmakers from the rival Republican Party quickly pounced on the incident, casting President Joe Biden — who has largely preserved and at times expanded his Republican predecessor Donald Trump's hawkish policies on China — as weak."President Biden should stop coddling and appeasing the Chinese communists. Bring the balloon down now and exploit its tech package, which could be an intelligence bonanza," he wrote on Twitter.

Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said that, as of Thursday, the balloon was"traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic."

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