anthony blinker met one. he knew nick, a few weeks after us fighter jets shot the balloon down. beijing says it was a weather balloon that blew, of course. there was no apology. but what i can also tell you is this was an opportunity to speak very clearly and very directly about the fact that china center surveillance balloon over our territory, violating our sovereignty, violating international law. and i told him quite simply that that was unacceptable . and can never happen again. were of course not the only ones on the receiving end of the surveillance balloons. more than 40 countries have had these blue fly over them in recent years. and that's been exposed to the world. my county has more now from washington d. c, just a couple of weeks after postponing his visit to china, the us secretary of state held a meeting with china's top diplomat wang ye. and it was made very clear that blunt words were exchanged between the 2 under discussion of course, that balloon incident to which the us shot down, claiming