US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a planned visit to China, the Biden administration has confirmed, calling the presence of an alleged Chinese “surveillance balloon” in American airspace as an “unacceptable” violation of sovereignty.A senior State Department official said on Friday that “conditions are not right” for the visit previously set to start on Sunday amid the “irresponsible” balloon incident.China has apologised for the balloon entering US airspace, describing it as a civilian “airship” used for meteorological research that “deviated far from its planned course” because of its “limited self-steering capability”. But the US administration said the aircraft was a “high-altitude surveillance balloon”.
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