A huge Chinese balloon drifting in the stratosphere some 60,000 feet above central United States has put a spanner in what many hoped was budding détente between China and the United States, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelling a much-anticipated trip to Beijing this weekend. Read more at straitstimes.com.
But there are hopes that the pause may be temporary.
China had earlier expressed regret, claiming a climate and meteorological balloon had drifted off course. But in Washington, a Department of Defence spokesperson briefing media, said: “We know that it’s a surveillance balloon.” Republican Senator Marco Rubio tweeted: “It was a mistake to not shoot down that Chinese spy balloon when it was over a sparsely populated area.”
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