{"id":1844416,"date":"2023-02-12T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1844416"},"modified":"2023-02-12T11:07:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T16:07:17","slug":"wapo-columnist-biden-working-hard-to-downplay-spy-balloon-to-warm-relations-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-columnist-biden-working-hard-to-downplay-spy-balloon-to-warm-relations-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Columnist: Biden Working Hard to Downplay Spy Balloon to Warm Relations With China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fwapo-columnist-biden-working-hard-to-downplay-spy-balloon-to-warm-relations-with-china%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=1844416&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\/Rogin-210-Thumbnail-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On Friday\u2019s \u201cCNN Newsroom,\u201d <em>Washington Post<\/em> Josh Rogin, columnist and author, stated that \u201cthe Biden administration is working hard to downplay\u201d The Chinese spy balloon incident \u201cbecause they want to resume their previously pursued path of warming U.S.-China relations and they want to get the visit back on track and they want to minimize the impact of this crisis,\u201d and he\u2019s troubled by the Biden administration\u2019s claim that the balloon didn\u2019t get any valuable intelligence because no one can really say that when the whole balloon hasn\u2019t been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Rogin stated: \u201cWell, it\u2019s very clear, Jim, that the Biden administration is working hard to downplay this incident because they want to resume their previously pursued path of warming U.S.-China relations and they want to get the visit back on track and they want to minimize the impact of this crisis, but their statements deserve some scrutiny. For example, how can they say that Xi Jinping may have known? The other way to say that is that he may have not known. Or, in other words, they don\u2019t know. \u2026 And, in the end, it doesn\u2019t matter, because he\u2019s responsible for what his military does. And the second thing that I find a little bit troubling with the Biden administration\u2019s message on this frankly is the message that, oh, we\u2019re pretty sure they didn\u2019t get anything good\u2026most of the thing is still at the bottom of the ocean. So, how can they say that? And the third thing that I think is really a little problematic \u2014 and this is where they\u2019re getting a lot of flack on the Hill \u2014 is that they say they waited ten days to shoot it down so they could aid recovery efforts. Well, again, the thing\u2019s at the bottom of the ocean, most of it. They got the nylon, but not the electronics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\"><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<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday\u2019s \u201cCNN Newsroom,\u201d Washington Post Josh Rogin, columnist and author, stated that \u201cthe Biden administration is working hard to downplay\u201d The Chinese spy balloon incident \u201cbecause they want to resume their previously pursued path of warming U.S.-China relations and they want to get the visit back on track and they want to minimize the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1844419,"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":[547],"tags":[17453,3620,4501,5941,18435,5414,16947,6893,7115,15172],"class_list":["post-1844416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-balloon","tag-biden","tag-china","tag-columnist","tag-downplay","tag-hard","tag-relations","tag-spy","tag-wapo","tag-warm"],"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\/1844416","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}