A senior State Department official told reporters Blinken had nevertheless decided to postpone his trip.
Republican Senator Tom Cotton had called for Blinken to cancel his trip, while Republican former President Donald Trump, a declared presidential candidate for 2024, posted "SHOOT DOWN THE BALLOON!" on his Truth Social media platform., which was agreed to in November by Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, is a blow to those on both sides who saw it as an overdue opportunity to stabilize an increasingly fractious relationship. The last visit by a U.S. secretary of state was in 2017.
Daniel Russel, the top U.S. diplomat for Asia under then-President Barack Obama, said he did not see a strategic rationale for canceling the trip and stressed the importance of maintaining high-level engagement with China. Such balloons typically operate at 80,000-120,000 feet , well above where commercial air traffic flies. The highest-performing fighter aircraft typically do not operate above 65,000 feet, although spy planes such as the U-2 have a service ceiling of 80,000 feet or more.
Here in Vienna we saw one too. Help!!!
Too much chance, too many questions with this ball, why not examine this ball by bringing it back to the ground?🤔
Maybe its not Chinese , but Mongolian or Japanese or Taiwanese, or ABC American born Chinese?! 😂🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Then no diplomat should ever visit the US?
Bet China is scared now! Ha!
Do you really believe the country that makes most of our electronics needs to use a weather balloon to spy on us? Ever heard about satellites?
US Surrounds China With War Machinery While Freaking Out About Balloons
CCP told him that he’s no longer welcome…they have everything they need (via balloon).
Is anyone taking this seriously 😒… All the reasons to delay and it falls on a “spy” balloon 🎈… Come on man
Exclusive footage of Chinese spies communicating back and forth
If that's what our leaders want they are the future enemy if they continue. Contain and control prepare Trust in the in the USA military complex to keep us safe. Have we the shelters for the populous or just the rich folks ?
'U.S.-China Meetings Held Up By Balloons' would've been more intriguing, but you can hang onto for the next time.
What is an ass that makes one of himself but doesn't feel like one at the same time he takes himself important as it's actually happening? Answer: Anthony Blinken
Did you know that the U.S. intelligence community has a number of balloons flying over the United States at very high altitude — e.g., 90,000 feet? They do. How many to they have flying over China is the real question Reuters will never ask.
一个破气球硬生生炒作成这样，我看着都尴尬😅
Why don't they just shoot it down? I font see what the fuss is about.
If it is spy balloon, how will Chinese take it back after its mission completed?
It's either they're trolling us super bad or using ground penetrating radar to see if our missiles are carrying real nuclear warheads.
Nancy symbolically violated their sovereignty. So they respond in kind. Tit for tat
1)What spy-ballons can detect that space satellites hasn't already detected? 2) Balloons have unpredictable flight pass, thus unless..
Great, now that the world can see anyone can float anything over our country just so long as they maintain a certain altitude range, how long do you think it will take for the Russians to float a bunch over containing something like anthrax spores?
Let's get it over with and start WW3 already. Life is boring enough as it is we need a war!
On hold because China just found out our embarrassing little secret - we can't hit anything between certain altitudes. The 'Space Force' is an abject failure of monumental proportions, they can't do anything the other branches of the military more than likely can do & better.
That's good, maybe never visit since you are just a waste if time.
Pity ww aren't creative enough to deal with this with the audacity it deserves.
Bewickwren Thanks. I was trying to verify the rumor.
You mean it’s over Texas now?
Blinken is such a wuss. Go there and tell them its not acceptable. They’ll keep taking advantage of us with this weak ass response
The balloon might be loaded with a new virus worse than covid. We are showing a sign of weakness if we do not shoot down the balloon! Shoot it down and be done with it! Damn woke military can't even wipe themselves anymore without fear of being PC. We need a stronger JCS!
Just tell the Chinese it’s in restricted air space and shoot it down. Not hard.
China knows they can do whatever they want. Biden not going to do anything.
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