BREAKING WORLD WAR III NEWS: ANTONY BLINKEN POSTPONES TRIP TO CHINA AFTER ALLEGED SPY BALLOON SPOTTED OVER U.S.; XI WARNS WASHINGTON TO REMAIN “COOL-HEADED.” Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, tells those who know God to pray. He tells those who do not know God to “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved.” Whyte tells President Biden, don’t sleep and call XI. Whyte tells Xi to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ said the most important words in the history of the world: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God still wants you to “let My people go.” Remove all restrictions from Christian worshipers and Jewish worshipers. Also, there is no need to fly surveillance balloons over our nuclear weapon sites because there is no need for a war between China and the U.S. If the Taiwanese do what Whyte has told them to do: that is to humble themselves and communicate with you using back channels and work out the family dispute and become the “Chinese Virgin Islands,” then all of this is unnecessary.
The Biden administration has indefinitely postponed Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing after determining that U.S. sovereignty was violated by what it identified as a Chinese reconnaissance balloon loitering above the continental U.S., the State Department said Friday.
U.S. officials on Thursday said the craft was loitering over Montana having earlier crossed Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and Canada. The Pentagon scrambled jets and at one point considered shooting down the balloon, the officials said, though didn’t over concerns that the debris posed a risk to people on the ground.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday denied that the craft was a spy vehicle and said it was a civilian balloon that was designed primarily for meteorological study and had blown off course. “China will continue to maintain communication with the U.S. to properly handle the unexpected situation,” a brief ministry statement said.
While the trip was never formally announced, a senior administration official said that Mr. Blinken had been scheduled to depart Friday night for Beijing. The State Department said that it notes China’s statement of regret and remains confident of its assessment of the situation.
“The presence of this balloon in our airspace is a clear violation of our sovereignty as well as international law and it is unacceptable that this has occurred,” the senior administration official said. “We have concluded that the conditions are not right at this moment for Secretary Blinken to travel to China.”
The official added that this was a postponement and Mr. Blinken plans to travel at the earliest appropriate opportunity when conditions allow for travel. He informed his Chinese counterpart early Friday that he wouldn’t be coming.
“We believe in diplomacy to responsibly manage the most complex bilateral relationship we have,” the senior administration official said. “We are committed to maintaining open lines with the PRC at all times, including during this incident.”
Mr. Blinken’s trip had been agreed upon weeks ago by President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an effort to reset relations strained by the countries’ geopolitical rivalry and exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Should the trip eventually go ahead, Mr. Blinken will be the highest-level U.S. official to go to Beijing in more than four years.
U.S. officials said on Friday that despite their assessment that U.S. sovereignty had been violated, they will continue to explore areas of cooperation based on U.S. interests, adding that complexities in the relationship existed even before this latest national security incident.
“Candidly speaking in this current environment, I think, it would have significantly narrowed the agenda that we would have been able to address,” a senior administration official said. “I’m confident that our channels of communication will remain as important as ever, and those channels do remain open.”
The presence of the Chinese balloon, however, is likely to complicate efforts by both the Biden administration and the Chinese government to try to find areas of common ground and put what U.S. officials describe as guardrails on the careening relationship.
U.S. officials said the balloon posed no risk to civilians and was flying at an altitude higher than commercial air traffic. The officials were confident the balloon had been launched by China and said it was spotted Wednesday by civilians aboard a commercial airliner.
As the balloon flew over Montana, U.S. officials said, the Pentagon scrambled F-22 jet fighters to intercept and destroy it, but opted not to to avoid the threat the debris would pose to people on the ground.
Source: WSJ,
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China says suspected spy balloon over U.S. skies is a civilian airship; Warns Washington to remain cool-headed
- Chinese authorities said Friday that a suspected Beijing-operated spy balloon spotted hovering over sensitive U.S. airspace was in fact a civilian airship intended for scientific research.
- China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that westerly wind had caused the airship to stray into U.S. territory, describing the incident as a “force majeure.”
- The statement comes hours after Beijing urged Washington to remain “cool-headed” amid its investigation into the incident.
Chinese authorities said Friday that a suspected Beijing-operated spy balloon spotted hovering over sensitive U.S. airspace was in fact a civilian airship intended for scientific research.
China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that westerly wind had caused the airship to stray into U.S. territory, describing the incident as a result of “force majeure” — or greater force — for which it was not responsible.
“The airship comes from China and is of a civilian nature, used for scientific research such as meteorology,” according to a Google translation of a statement on the foreign ministry’s website.
“Affected by the westerly wind and with limited self-control ability, the airship seriously deviated from the scheduled route,” it said.
“China regrets that the airship strayed into the United States due to force majeure. China will continue to maintain communication with the US to properly handle the unexpected situation,” it added.
The statement comes hours after Beijing urged Washington to remain “cool-headed” amid its investigation into reports that the balloon had been hovering over sensitive airspace in the northern U.S.
The U.S. accused China on Thursday of operating what it said was a possible surveillance balloon over locations that house nuclear weapons, further escalating tensions between the two superpowers and prompting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to cancel a scheduled trip to Beijing this weekend.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a press briefing earlier Friday that authorities were still learning about the matter, adding that politicians and the public should withhold judgment “before we have a clear understanding of the facts.”
We hope relevant parties would handle the matter in a cool-headed way.Mao NingSPOKESPERSON, CHINA’S FOREIGN MINISTRY
“We have noticed relevant reports and are learning about this matter. What I want to emphasize is that speculation and conjecture are not conducive to a proper settlement of the matter before the matter is clarified,” Mao said, via an NBC translation.
Source: CNBC,
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