{"id":2004939,"date":"2023-08-18T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/id-have-sent-an-aircraft-carrier-pence-slams-biden-response-to-chinese-spy-balloon\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:06:13","slug":"id-have-sent-an-aircraft-carrier-pence-slams-biden-response-to-chinese-spy-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/id-have-sent-an-aircraft-carrier-pence-slams-biden-response-to-chinese-spy-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence criticizes Biden&#8217;s handling of Chinese spy balloon, suggests sending an aircraft carrier."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fid-have-sent-an-aircraft-carrier-pence-slams-biden-response-to-chinese-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=2004939&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--><div>\n<h2>Former Vice President Mike Pence Calls for Stronger Response to China&#8217;s\u2063 &#8220;Spy Balloon&#8221; \u2062Incident<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>ATLANTA\u2014Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">vice president<\/a> Mike Pence said the United States should \u2063have sent an\u200d aircraft carrier to China in response to the &#8220;spy balloon&#8221; incident, and \u200daccused\u200c President Joe Biden of &#8220;kowtowing&#8221; to Beijing by instead sending\u2064 Secretary of State Antony Blinken \u200dto ask\u2062 for a meeting with the Xi regime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think\u200d it is incomprehensible, after \u200cChina sent a\u200b balloon over \u200bstrategic sites in the United States, had\u2064 their ships cutting off our ships in the South China sea, had their aircraft cutting our aircraft in the Asia Pacific\u2063 [that Biden] sent the secretary of state, hat in hand, to go kowtow and ask for a meeting,&#8221; said Pence on Friday at \u200bthe Gathering, a conference hosted by conservative commentator\u2064 Erick Erickson\u2063 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn\u2019t\u200b send the secretary of state, I\u2019d have \u2064sent an aircraft carrier,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I \u200bwould say you\u2019re going to knock this off now or I\u2019ll send more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese spy balloon\u2063 flew across American airspace for over \u200da week in January and February,\u200c gathering intelligence from key U.S. military sites before it was eventually shot down near South Carolina. Days later, Blinken traveled to meet with the Chinese foreign minister, who offered no apology for the incursion.<\/p>\n<p>Pence\u2019s comments come as the Biden administration has continued \u2062to \u200dsend officials\u2014such as climate envoy John Kerry\u2014to meet with \u2062China, despite Beijing\u2019s \u2064increasing military \u2063aggression and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-pension-funds-invest-millions-in-blacklisted-chinese-companies\/\" title=\"State pension funds invest in blacklisted Chinese companies, worth millions.\">human rights \u200dabuses<\/a>. China and Russia deployed \u2062warships \u2063close to Japan\u2019s southern islands on Thursday, ahead of a trilateral\u2064 meeting between the United States, Japan, and South Korea aimed at\u200b discussing tensions\u2062 with China.<\/p>\n<p>Pence \u200bslammed the Biden \u2063administration as being\u2063 &#8220;AWOL on the world stage,&#8221; and criticized the president for giving $6 \u2064billion to Iran in exchange for American hostages earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is absolutely wrong \u2062for the Biden administration \u200cto\u200b pay $6 billion to the mullahs in Iran for the release of \u2064American hostages,&#8221; said Pence. \u200c&#8221;That one took my breath \u200caway, but it\u2019s no real surprise because the Obama-Biden administration delivered pallets\u2064 of cash to the Iranians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He argued that Biden\u2019s &#8220;disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan&#8221;\u200b was the \u2063turning point \u200cthat &#8220;emboldened Russia to make their move&#8221; invading Ukraine. He\u200c said U.S. support for Ukraine\u2019s armed\u200d forces was critical \u200dfor degrading the Russian military.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the support of the \u200dUnited States and our allies, Russia\u2019s gone from the second most \u200cpowerful military\u2064 in the world to the second most powerful military in Ukraine,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That\u2019s what we used to call progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former vice president\u2064 also denounced the growing\u2062 trend of\u200d isolationism in the\u200b Republican presidential primary field. Vivek Ramaswamy has campaigned on ending aid to Ukraine, while Florida governor Ron DeSantis has said the United States doesn\u2019t have a compelling interest in the European conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe America\u2019s \u2064the leader \u200cof the free world, the arsenal of democracy,&#8221; said Pence. &#8220;I frankly hear the former president [Donald Trump] and other candidates in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/id-have-sent-an-aircraft-carrier-pence-slams-biden-response-to-chinese-spy-balloon\/\" title=\"Pence criticizes Biden's handling of Chinese spy balloon, suggests sending an aircraft carrier.\">field pulling back<\/a> on American leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that we did not respond more forcefully to China&#8217;s provocative actions,&#8221; Pence stated. He emphasized the need for a stronger stance, suggesting the deployment of an aircraft carrier as a more appropriate response. Pence criticized Biden&#8217;s approach, claiming it demonstrated weakness and subservience to Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2004940,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2004939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2004939","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}