
Blinken warns Chinese foreign minister balloon incursion "must never happen again"
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Saturday at an international security conference in Munich, marking the first high-level contact between the U.S. and China since the U.S. shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon two weeks ago.
In their hourlong meeting, Blinken told Wang that Beijing's surveillance program had been "exposed to the world."
"I condemned the incursion of the PRC surveillance balloon and stressed it must never happen again," Blinken said in a tweet, referring to the People's Republic of China.

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