Chinese officials declined to take a phone call with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Saturday after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon, the Pentagon said.
By Oren Liebermann, CNN China refused a conversation with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following the downing of the suspected Chinese balloon, the Pentagon said in a statement Tuesday. The Defense Department submitted a request for a call between Austin and China’s Minister of National Defense …
Beijing rejected a request for a secure call between Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and his counterpart on the day an American warplane shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, a US Department…
The Chinese government declined the Pentagon's request for a "secure call" between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and People's Republic of China Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe after the U.S. military shot down its surveillance balloon.
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