{"id":1853294,"date":"2023-02-19T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T18:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1853294"},"modified":"2023-02-19T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T18:35:20","slug":"blinken-says-china-gave-no-apology-for-spy-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-says-china-gave-no-apology-for-spy-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken Says China Gave \u2018No Apology\u2019 For Spy Balloon"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fblinken-says-china-gave-no-apology-for-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=1853294&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>Biden&#8217;s top diplomatic representative said China had not offered an apology for this weekend&#8217;s incident.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-intel-watched-suspected-spy-balloon-take-off-from-china-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Spy balloon suspected of being a spy<\/a> The United States covers a vast expanse.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/antony-blinken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antony Blinken<\/a> shared the blunt assessment after meeting on\u00a0Saturday with China&#8217;s head diplomat, Wang Yi, on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to characterize what he said. I don&#8217;t think that would be appropriate. Although I can tell you, no, there was no apology,&#8221; In an interview with Blinken, he said: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meet-press-february-19-2023-n1303027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News &#8220;Meet the Press<\/a>&#8221; This aired on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force took down the balloon just two weeks ago off South Carolina&#8217;s coast. However, the vessel had already traveled across a large area of the U.S., from Montana to the southeast coast, past military installations, and not before it was shot down. According to U.S. officials, the military delayed bringing down the balloon until it was over the Atlantic Ocean. This was because falling debris could be dangerous for people below. Officials also stated that steps were taken to stop China from obtaining valuable intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing claims that the balloon was a civilian weather balloon and was mainly blown off its course. It also accused the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/news\/national-international\/china-accuses-us-of-overreacting-when-it-shot-down-balloon\/2969555\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overreacting<\/a> With the shoot-down. In retaliation the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-united-states-government-china-beijing-business-cdf319c71f097f7f8ef176b6d7b9526c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blacklisted six Chinese entities<\/a> China levied after Beijing&#8217;s military-aerospace programs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/16\/business\/china-sanctions-lockheed-raytheon-hnk-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanctions<\/a> two major U.S. defense contractors.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, President Joe Biden stated that he makes every effort to make America great again. &#8220;no apologies&#8221; for shooting it down \u2014 it&#8217;s unclear who was asking him to apologize \u2014 though he insisted the U.S. is not seeking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2023\/02\/16\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-united-states-response-to-recent-aerial-objects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;new Cold War&#8221;<\/a> China. Biden stated that U.S. intelligence doesn&#8217;t believe that the three mysterious flying objects U.S. Military shot down over North America during the days following 9\/11 were part of any spying operation.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken echoed Biden&#8217;s position on China and said he told Biden that the balloon episode was a matter of concern. &#8220;unacceptable and can never happen again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-military-concludes-operation-to-recover-debris-from-chinese-spy-balloon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Completed its rescue operation<\/a> Last week&#8217;s remains of the balloon. The U.S. Northern Command stated that the debris was being transported to an FBI laboratory in Virginia. &#8220;counterintelligence exploitation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration\u2019s top envoy said China offered no apology this weekend for the\u00a0suspected spy balloon that flew across a large expanse of the United States. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shared the blunt assessment after meeting on\u00a0Saturday with China\u2019s head diplomat, Wang Yi, on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference. \u201cI don\u2019t &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1853297,"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":[8303,5447,17453,4636,4501,6893],"class_list":["post-1853294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-no","tag-apology","tag-balloon","tag-blinken","tag-china","tag-spy"],"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\/1853294","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1853297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}