Blinken postpones his Beijing trip after a Chinese balloon is spotted over Montana

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The U.S. State Department says Secretary Antony Blinken has postponed his trip to Beijing amid concerns about a Chinese surveillance balloon flying over U.S. airspace.

But, he said, the U.S. is using some of those fighter jets to"take a peek" at the balloon in its efforts to keep monitoring it."If you had a hundred or 200 pounds of stuff and that came tumbling down from a high altitude, that wouldn't be very good for whatever it landed on.""We shouldn't let this thing be floating above our ICBM fields, or really over the U.S.

"It's hard for me to believe that if we were putting a balloon over China and they had the capacity to take it down, that they wouldn't do so," he said. "If we recovered it in some capacity, we take it apart and perhaps learn something about [China's] own signals intelligence, or whatever the payload is," Karako said.that the balloon's owner has"put it over the continental United States for an extended period of time."Canada also says it's monitoring a high-altitude surveillance balloon, though it's not clear if it's the same one. U.S.

 

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So why would China launch a ‘public exposure risk’ Spy event just prior to visit by Secretary of State Blinken? What messaging is going on with CCP?

The State Department needs to immediately ask for what equipment i on the balloon and a copy of the data collected or better yet, the keys to what ever is transmitting the data.

Well that explains it, and they never lie

We need Balloon Force!!!!!!!!

RussianCollusionHoax/Coup. Hamilton 68 continues

WhatIsInTheBalloon

Any country can put satellites up - but to enter a country’s airspace is different. So how about we work to establish international ‘weather’ observation projects - and take down anything that isn’t ours or an approved vehicle/balloon/etc.?

If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. More gaslighting this is the same NPR that published an article about burning any books in your library from a white author, regardless, of who or what.

My goodness a scary balloon. Lets pull our diplomats!

Sounds like we’re going to try to retrieve it.

Removing the balloon 'would immediately demonstrate US displeasure & payload could yield important information…take it apart, perhaps learn about [China's] own signals intelligence, or whatever the payload is' He dismissed China's characterization of craft as a weather balloon.

99 RED BALLOONS!!🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

As if the US doesn't have Spy Satellites circling the planet.

Thank god it's not dropping pathogens, right?

Send Biden….by balloon

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