China says that contraption over the United States is just researching weather.

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Welcome to the lead secretary of state entity Blinken is speaking right now about his

canceled trip to China, let's listen in.

In our skies is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law, and

clearly unacceptable, and we've made that clear to China.

Any country that has its airspace violated in this way, I think, would respond similarly,

and I can only imagine what the reaction would be in China if they were on the other end.

And what this has done is created the conditions that undermine the purpose of the trip, including

ongoing efforts to build a floor under the relationship, and to address a broad range

of issues that are of concern to the American people, I believe to the Chinese people, and

certainly as well to people around the world.

So we took the step that I announced earlier today in postponing the plan visit for this

weekend.

Meanwhile, we are going to remain engaged with the PRC as this ongoing issue is resolved.

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