China’s defense minister rejected a request from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to speak immediately after the U.S. downed a suspected Chinese spy balloon, the Pentagon said
U.S. jet fighters downed the balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday. Photo: Randall Hill/ReutersWASHINGTON—China’s defense minister rejected a request from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to speak immediately after, the Pentagon said, indicating how the episode has further inflamed the powers’ fraught relations.
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