Chinese spy balloon<\/a> in United States airspace an \u201cunacceptable\u201d violation of the country\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe balloon incident \u201cundermined\u201d the purpose of the trip, which was set to start on Sunday, Blinken told reporters on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very important to emphasise that the presence of this surveillance balloon over the United States, in our skies, is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law and clearly unacceptable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China has expressed regret for the balloon entering US airspace, describing it as a civilian airship used for meteorological research that \u201cdeviated far from its planned course\u201d because of its \u201climited self-steering capability\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
US officials say it is a \u201chigh-altitude surveillance balloon\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China\u2019s foreign ministry issued a statement on Saturday saying the flight of a Chinese \u201cairship\u201d over the US was a force majeure accident and accused US politicians and media of taking advantage of the situation to discredit Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Al Jazeera: Washington, DC \u2013\u00a0 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a visit to China, calling the presence of an alleged Chinese spy balloon in United States airspace an \u201cunacceptable\u201d violation of the country\u2019s sovereignty. The balloon incident \u201cundermined\u201d the purpose of the trip, which was set to start on Sunday, Blinken told reporters on Friday afternoon. \u201cIt\u2019s very important to emphasise that the presence of this surveillance balloon over the United States, in our skies, is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law and clearly unacceptable,\u201d he said. China has expressed regret… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30106,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30104\/revisions\/30106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}