{"id":1951770,"date":"2023-06-20T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-says-china-spy-balloon-incident-should-be-closed\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:26:41","slug":"blinken-says-china-spy-balloon-incident-should-be-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-says-china-spy-balloon-incident-should-be-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken urges closure of China spy balloon incident."},"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\">16<\/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-spy-balloon-incident-should-be-closed%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=1951770&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--><h2>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken: Spy Balloon Incident with China &#8220;Should Be Closed&#8221;<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n        U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken REUTERS<br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>BEIJING\u2014Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-claims-spy-balloon-floating-over-us-nuclear-sites-is-for-scientific-research\/\" title=\"China Claims Spy Balloon Floating Over US Nuclear Sites Is for 'Scientific Research'\">spy balloon incident<\/a> with China <strong>&#8220;should be closed&#8221;<\/strong> in an interview with MSNBC posted online on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We did what we needed to do to protect our interests, we said what we needed to say and made clear what needed to make clear in terms of this not happening again. So as long as it doesn&#8217;t, that chapter should be closed,&#8221; Blinken said in the video interview with MSNBC.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>The Chinese spy balloon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/chinese-spy-balloon-collected-intel-from-us-military-sites\/\">traversed<\/a> the continental United States in January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-says-china-spy-balloon-incident-should-be-closed\/\" title=\"Blinken urges closure of China spy balloon incident.\">collecting sensitive data<\/a> from military sites. The Biden administration did not order the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-officials-say-chinese-spy-balloon-crashed-off-hawaiian-coast-4-months-ago\/\" title=\"U.S. Officials Say Chinese Spy Balloon Crashed Off Hawaiian Coast 4 Months Ago\">balloon shot<\/a> down until it reached the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 4.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>be made clear,&#8221; Blinken stated. He emphasized the importance of maintaining a constructive relationship with China while addressing concerns regarding human rights abuses and unfair trade practices. Blinken&#8217;s remarks come after a spy balloon incident strained relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1951771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[544],"tags":[17453,4636,4501,21428,4819,6893,4399],"class_list":["post-1951770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-balloon","tag-blinken","tag-china","tag-closure","tag-incident","tag-spy","tag-urges"],"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\/1951770","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}