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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Blinken: China’s Balloon Incursion ‘Must Never Happen Again’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the the 59th Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, Germany, 18 February 2023. (EPA)

The top diplomats from the United States and China met on Saturday in the first high-level contact between their countries since the US shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken sending the message that Beijing's surveillance program had been "exposed to the world."

Blinken and Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, held the hourlong talks in Munich, where they were attending an international security conference, according to the US State Department.

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