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Blinken also emphasized concerns that China may be considering supporting Russia in its war with Ukraine, including lethal assistance, and was critical of Chinas seeming effort to have it both ways.

Dont have to be scary spraying flonase daily gives you long-lasting, non-drowsy relief. (psst psst) flonase. all good. secretary of state blinken says in a meeting yesterday with his chinese counterpart he condemned the incursion of the prc surveillance balloon and stressed it must never happen again. that balloon captivated the attention of the u.s. government, media, and american public. but my next guest reminds us the threat from china runs far deeper than spy balloons. an adviser to the u...

Not paying attention to this. in may 2019, they even declared a "peoples war" on us and we decided that it wasnt really a big deal. so really what weve got to do is understand what the chinese say and listen to what they say because as james lily, a american ambassador to beijing said, the chinese telegraph their punches. theyre doing this, eric, to establish a justification to strike america. eric: to strike america and not just potentially taiwan? >> yes, i mean clearly what we saw was a ballo...

That china sent surveillance balloon over our territory, violating our sovereignty, violating international law and i told him quite simply that that was unacceptable and can never happen again. >> un ambassador nikki haley took the rhetoric up a notch this morning. >> they are lying about the balloon the same way they lied about covid and its time for us to be reactionary to china and start actually being aggressive and letting china know what we expect of them. >> meanwhile president biden say...

Balloon from china, the high stakes meeting was critical. >> i can tell you, no, there was no apology. i can also tell you that this was an opportunity to speak very clearly, very directly, about the fact that china sent a surveillance balloon over our territory. violating our sovereignty, violating international law. i told him, quite simply, that was unacceptable and can never happen again. >> that senior official also telling nbc, ye continued to claim the balloon was not intended for surveil...

Threat that i and others have been covering cyber security and cyber threats have been tracking for more than a decade. it clearly forced a pretty confrontational u.s. response and now we are seeing china call this hysterical, saying they over reacted, they are still maintaining this was a weather balloon. but, clearly. this was a surveillance operation. the key thing to remember is that china has been hacking our intellectual property, our personal data. government agencies and workers for more...

Their territory. something that the administration has denied. demonstrations gun around the world now telling countries and allies in various parts of the globe that chinese have had these balloons over 40 different countries. in recent times. thats obviously a much bigger problem than a single balloon over montana. >> listen, that includes over the united states airspace. new reporting from the wall street journal as you know says the trump era officials were aware of suspects was at u.s. airs...

Information. we reevaluate. thats clearly whats happened here. in those three instances that one report of the trump era, when were told now anyway is that they were over u.s. airspace for much shorter period of time the net balloon we saw a couple of weeks ago. they were not going over the entire continental united states. there was more over i think it was over pacific islands, the pacific coast. i think that meant they did not take it seriously. they didnt seem to be a -- sustained threat. ob...

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United States President Joe Biden directed his national security team to establish a better inventory of unmanned airborne objects in the airspace to detect the