{"id":1835377,"date":"2023-02-05T06:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T11:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835377"},"modified":"2023-02-05T06:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T11:53:31","slug":"sen-rounds-sec-of-state-blinken-wouldve-still-gone-to-china-if-public-didnt-know-about-spy-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rounds-sec-of-state-blinken-wouldve-still-gone-to-china-if-public-didnt-know-about-spy-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rounds: Sec of State Blinken Would&#8217;ve Still Gone to China if Public Didn&#8217;t Know About Spy Balloon"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fsen-rounds-sec-of-state-blinken-wouldve-still-gone-to-china-if-public-didnt-know-about-spy-balloon%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=1835377&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<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Rounds-23-Thumbnail-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On Friday\u2019s broadcast of the Fox News Channel\u2019s \u201cYour World,\u201d Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) said that he believes Secretary of State Tony Blinken\u2019s visit to China would have gone forward if the incursion of a Chinese spy balloon into U.S. airspace didn\u2019t become public given that the administration didn\u2019t cancel the meeting until Friday despite <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/suspected-chinese-balloon-us\/h_4b90710aa87db979e8c2b10ba735de4d\">Statement<\/a> It was aware of the balloon on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Host Neil Cavuto asked [relevant exchange begins around 1:50] \u201cI don\u2019t want to compare apples and oranges, Sen., but it does ring a lot like the early readings we\u2019re getting on the classified documents [from] the administration and how they were explaining them. And in this case, if they were aware, as they seem to be indicating, of this presence for some days, why, all of a sudden, is it today that they\u2019ve decided to cancel Antony Blinken\u2019s trip to China?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Rounds replied, \u201cI can\u2019t tell you for sure. We\u2019re going to ask that question. But I think along with it and then close to the same question is, would we have ever been advised that this had occurred in the first place if the incursion would have happened and then would have slipped back out again like they have suggested has happened in the past?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rounds were later added. \u201cI would suspect that it\u2019s being canceled \u2014 and, once again, we\u2019ll have to ask them that question \u2014 but I would suspect that it\u2019s being canceled because we found out about it. I think if the incursion would have occurred and they would have turned it around or maneuvered it out of our airspace again, we probably wouldn\u2019t have found out about it and I would suspect that the meeting might very well have continued on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Ian\u00a0Hanchett on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday\u2019s broadcast of the Fox News Channel\u2019s \u201cYour World,\u201d Sen. 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