“We can confirm that Secretary Blinken concluded a meeting with … Wang Yi on the margins of the Munich Security Conference,” the State Department official said.
“We can confirm that Secretary Blinken concluded a meeting with … Wang Yi on the margins of the Munich Security Conference,” the State Department official said by email, on condition of anonymity.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“To have dispatched an advanced fighter jet to shoot down a balloon with a missile, such behavior is unbelievable, almost hysterical,” Wang said on Saturday. The balloon’s flight this month over the U.S. mainland triggered an uproar in Washington and prompted Blinken to postpone a planned visit to Beijing. That Feb. 5-6 trip would have been the first by a U.S. secretary of state to China in five years and was seen by both sides as an opportunity to stabilize increasingly fraught ties.Article content
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