.SecDef continues to pursue dialogue with his Chinese counterpart following the US military's successful takedown of a Chinese spy balloon. This roughly a week after Pentagon announced that days earlier, 'the PRC has declined our request' for dialogue.
The secretary's comments come roughly a week after Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder announced that days earlier,"the PRC has declined our request" for dialogue with PRC Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe."When something happens, they somehow tend to shut down their military channels of communication," Austin told NBC News in an interview that aired on Wednesday.
China's surveillance balloon first entered U.S. airspace on Jan. 28 over the Alaskan Aleutian Islands before it then entered Canadian airspace and subsequently reentered U.S. airspace over northern Idaho on Jan. 31. It then traveled across the country until it was over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of the Carolinas, which is when an F-22 downed it on Feb. 4.
"Not true. Not doing it. Just absolutely not true," U.S. National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said earlier this week."We are not flying balloons over China."
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