{"id":1835191,"date":"2023-02-04T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835191"},"modified":"2023-02-04T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T17:20:41","slug":"biden-admin-tried-to-conceal-chinese-spy-balloon-to-not-disrupt-blinken-trip-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-tried-to-conceal-chinese-spy-balloon-to-not-disrupt-blinken-trip-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Tried To Conceal Chinese Spy Balloon To Not Disrupt Blinken Trip: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-tried-to-conceal-chinese-spy-balloon-to-not-disrupt-blinken-trip-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835191&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/biden-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a> What did you know about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese<\/a> Spy balloon flying over the U.S. before it was widely known, but kept quiet to ensure that Secretary of State did not get disrupted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/antony-blinken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antony Blinken<\/a>\u2019s trip to China, according to a Friday report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-02-04\/from-china-to-big-sky-the-balloon-that-unnerved-the-white-house?leadSource=uverify%20wall#xj4y7vzkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> That U.S. officials were \u201cwell aware\u201d that the balloon had crossed into American airspace on January 28 and that it was over Idaho on Tuesday, but decided to not inform the public to not upend Blinken\u2019s diplomatic trip to China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg spoke to White House officials who confirmed that the balloon was above Montana on Wednesday. They also confirmed that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates knew about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lloyd-austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lloyd Austin<\/a> Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mark-milley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Milley<\/a> President Joe Biden told him that shooting down a balloon could pose a danger to civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House said that they wanted to be cautious because China relations could be a significant issue in the 2024 election. \u201cbaffled\u201d by China\u2019s claim to not know what was going on with the balloon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg pointed out that the Biden administration did not inform the public until the Billings Gazette published the picture of the balloon. \u201cforced Biden\u2019s hand.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Biden\u2019s efforts to conceal information about the balloon to save Blinken\u2019s China trip failed. On Friday,\u00a0Blinken said his team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/secretary-of-state-blinken-will-postpone-china-trip-over-spy-balloon-incident\">Conclusion<\/a> \u201cconditions were not conducive\u201d For him to continue with his planned visit to China this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that he had conveyed the information to him. \u201cirresponsible act and that the PRC\u2019s decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions we were prepared to have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blinken added that he also told his counterpart that the United States \u201cremains committed to diplomatic engagement with China\u201d He also stated that he will be visiting Beijing in the near future \u201cwhen conditions allow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The balloon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/news\/north-carolina-news\/watch-chinese-spy-balloon-flies-over-nc-saturday-morning-according-to-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spotted<\/a> It was seen flying over North Carolina Saturday morning, as it appeared to be heading toward the Atlantic Ocean. It is believed that the balloon passed over Tennessee last night, before passing over Charlotte and Asheville, North Carolina this morning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ben Zeisloft contributed this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration knew about the Chinese spy balloon sailing over the U.S. earlier than when it became widely known but kept quiet so as to not disrupt Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s trip to China, according to a Friday report.\u00a0 Bloomberg News reported that U.S. officials were \u201cwell aware\u201d that the balloon had crossed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1835194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4496,17453,3620,4636,4117,13056,17614,3819,6893,5601],"class_list":["post-1835191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-admin","tag-balloon","tag-biden","tag-blinken","tag-chinese","tag-conceal","tag-disrupt","tag-report","tag-spy","tag-trip"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}