U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called China's use of a surveillance balloon 'a violation of international law” in a wide-ranging interview with MorningEdition.
We need to see more of these border crossings opened. And we've been in a situation for years where every year or every six months we have to go to the United Nations and get a Security Council resolution that authorizes border crossings. Each and every time Russia tries to shut them down and we're down to one. That one at Bab al-Hawa was actually disrupted by the earthquake for a day. The roads were so bad that nothing could get through. That's now operating.
We're committed to responsibly managing the competition between the United States and China, and we look to Beijing to do the same. This particular action, sending the surveillance balloon over the heart of the United States, was an irresponsible act and a violation of our sovereignty and international law. But it doesn't take away from the fact that we are committed to finding ways to responsibly manage it. We believe that diplomacy and engagement are important.
Vladimir Putin has to give up on his notion that Ukraine is not its own country, that it needs to be erased from the maps and subsumed into Russia. He's already failed at that. But he seems to continue to believe that that's what he's trying to achieve. And unless he's disabused of that notion, it's hard to see how peace can move forward.
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