President Joe Biden took a defiant stance toward Beijing during his State of the Union speech, just three days after the U.S. military shot down a spy balloon that flew over the continental United States
'We Will Act To Protect Our Country.' Biden Addresses China During State of the Unionspeech Tuesday, just three days after the U.S. military shot down a spy balloon that flew over the continental United States.
“Make no mistake, as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country,” he said. “And we did.” Calling out China’s increasingly autocratic leader, Biden went off-script and shouted, “Name me a world leader who’d change places with Xi Jinping.” The U.S. Navy is now scouring the Atlantic Ocean to collect remnants of the mammoth air balloon that seized Americans’ attention and triggered an international dispute. The U.S. military is hunting information to understand how a fleet of high-altitude balloons carrying cameras and solar arrays was able to traverse American airspace on multiple occasions for years without detection.
The diplomatic fallout has been considerable, widening the fissures between Washington and Beijing in several places. The Pentagon admitted Tuesday that China’s defense minister Wei Fenghe declined a request to speak to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after an American fighter jet shot-down the balloon. Secretary of State Antony Blinkento Beijing on Friday hours before he was set to depart, scuttling an opportunity for a diplomatic détente on shared global challenges.
During his speech, Biden said he’s told President Xi he doesn’t want the two nations to take a war footing. “I’ve made clear with President Xi that we seek competition, not conflict,” he said.
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