“China has some administrative difficulties in relation to the United States,” Biden said. “And that has nothing to do with kicking the ball down. I don’t think the Chinese leaders even knew where the thing was, what was on board or what was going on.”
Biden also thinks China views the balloon saga as embarrassing rather than a deliberate action. Just before boarding the government jet of Air Force One to launch his re-election campaign in Philadelphia, he expressed the hope of meeting Xi in the coming months.
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Interesting detail: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is traveling to Beijing to meet Chinese representatives to ease tensions between the two countries and prevent a conflict between the two largest world economies.
Blinken was supposed to go to China earlier, but due to the commotion surrounding the Chinese spy balloon, that visit could not take place. The balloon was shot down by a fighter jet near the coast of South Carolina last February after it drifted from the west to the east coast.