The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenhas starred in the first meeting in person with a senior Chinese official after the crisis unleashed between the two countries by the discovery and demolition of a balloon Chinese “spy” on US territory.

The head of US diplomacy explained through his Twitter profile that the meeting, which took place during the Munich Security Conferencehas been with wang yidirector of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

“I condemned the incursion of the surveillance balloon of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and I stressed that it should not happen again. I warned China against providing aid material to Russia and also stressed the importance of keeping lines of communication open,” she said after the meeting.

The tension between China and the United States It has shot up after the US authorities shot down on February 4 a Chinese balloon that according to Washington is part of an espionage program and that for Beijing had only meteorological purposes.

the United States later shot down three other flying objects in its territory and Canada, whose origin is being investigated by the US and Canadian authorities, but which, according to US President Joe Biden, do not appear to have any link to the “spy” balloon.

The discovery of that first balloon caused Blinken to suspend the trip he planned to make to Beijing in early February and postpone it until “the conditions” are right for it to take place.

China calls the shooting down of the balloon “hysterical”

From the other side, Wang has described the decision to shoot down the balloon as “absurd and hysterical reaction” and maintains that it was something “unacceptable”. The Chinese representative has reiterated that it was a civilian device and without the possibility of being directed at a distance, as well as that the fact of shooting it down “does not show the strength of the United States”, but “on the contrary”.

In this context, the senior Chinese diplomat has called on the United States to show “sincerity”, “correct its mistakes” and “repair the damage” caused to bilateral relations. He believes that the United States should have handled the incident in a “joint”, “rational” and “professional” manner.