At their first meeting since the American military identified and destroyed a Chinese surveillance balloon flying over the continental US, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said his Chinese counterpart offered no apology for the diplomatic mess that could have escalated under different leadership, according to NBC News.
People’s Republic of China CCP Central Foreign Affairs Wang Yi met with Blinken while the pair attended Munich Security Conference in Germany. “There was no apology,” Blinken said of his conversation with Wang Yi, director of the People’s Republic of China CCP Central Foreign Affairs office. “But what I can also tell you is this was an opportunity to speak very clearly and very directly about the fact that China sent a surveillance balloon over our territory, violating our sovereignty, violating international law. And I told him quite simply that that was unacceptable and can never happen again,”