Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine emphasized the importance of maintaining a 'thorough and robust' line of communication between the U.S. and China in light of recent events during an interview on Fox News Channel's 'Cavuto Live' Saturday.
Little is known about the origins about the latter two objects and it is not clear whether they were in any way connected to the first., said of the more recent object downed by the U.S., noting that "we don't know what the origin of this one."
However, Kaine called the suspected surveillance balloon an "ill-conceived and ill-timed and incompetent move" by China, given that it"China is a competitor certainly but in some areas like this they’re also an adversary," Kaine said, adding that there can be areas in which the U.S. and China work together, such as public health or humanitarian relief efforts.
Kaine noted that "one of the most disturbing pieces of news I heard this week" was that when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attempted to call his Chinese counterpart about the suspected surveillance balloon, his call went unanswered.“You need to keep a line of communications open between the two most powerful nations in the world,” Kaine said.
Kaine invoked a comparison to the Cold War, in which the U.S. and Soviet Union maintained regular communication. “If you have that, you can avoid unnecessary or accidental escalation.” “We have to figure out a way to make sure that, as challenging as the relationship is, the communication is thorough and robust so we don’t accidentally have a miscalculation.”
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