Top Chinese Diplomat Slams US Over Balloon Incident at Security Conference; May Elevate US-Taiwan Relations: Experts
Wang Yi, the Chinese communist regime’s top diplomat, called the United States’s shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon “absurd and hysterical” at Munich Security Conference on Feb. 18 when he met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The Chinese balloon breached U.S. airspace flying across the country at the end of January and was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean by the U.S. military at the beginning of February. The incident escalated the tension between the two countries. In response, Blinken postponed his planned official visit to China.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the 2023 Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 18, 2023. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
The Chinese regime has continued to claim that the balloon was for civilian use and blew off course to the airspace of the United States. But Washington said it was clearly a surveillance balloon, with electronics mounted on its massive chassis….