Flight of the nasty balloon Posted on 06/14/2023 9:21:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
Burns went to Beijing to meet with his Chinese counterparts “to emphasize the importance of maintaining open lines of communication and intelligence channels,” the official said. The visit was first reported by the Financial Times.
The CIA director was in China after Beijing had broken off most regular calls between senior diplomatic, intelligence, and military officials in the aftermath of the U.S. shootdown of a Chinese spy balloon in early February.
Flight of the nasty balloon
In recent weeks, the Biden administration has attempted to restart high-level talks between the U.S. and China.
For example, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with China’s most senior diplomat, Wang Yi, for several hours over two days on May 11-12.
The FT specified that the CIA director visited China before the May 19 G7 summit in Hiroshima, at which Biden made a cryptic comment about expecting an immediate “thaw” in Sino-US relations.
There has not been a thaw. It looks like China is preparing for the war they think we plan to start.
The Pentagon complained on May 25 that China was not responding to the US military’s overtures. Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu refused to meet with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin at the Shangri-La Dialogue conference in Singapore last weekend. The US sanctioned Li in 2018 for his involvement in buying weapons systems from Russia.
Is any of this reassuring to anyone? We have fools governing us. Fools, crooks, and liars.
Remember when Biden said, “America is back,” and he’s the moral leader? What a joke.
In his inaugural address in January 2021, Biden announced that the US would “repair our alliances and engage with the world once again.”
He traveled there to ask forgiveness?
No need for a QUESTION MARK!!
SULLIVAN: Look, if you want information about our secret, secure, or military facilities, you don't need to send a damned balloon over where everyone can see it and get worked up into a lather over it. Just ask what you need to know, include a million dollars US for the Big Guy, and we can give you what you need tout de suite.
He had to go apologize to his real masters.
Begging and bowing?
summoned???
China’s Ambassador to France Posted this (below link) on June 11th, 2023.
Meanwhile the USA is putting on sexual deviant swingers’ parties on the White House lawn.
Priorities.
Ambassade de Chine en France
@AmbassadeChine
Jun 11
Les femmes de l’armée chinoise
https://twitter.com/AmbassadeChine/status/1667844441078472704?s=20
Its only a guess, but I believe China (correctly) sees Sullivan and Blinken as corrupt Biden lackeys, ideologues and smarmy political whores who have climbed the greasy pole of woke/DNC politics.
On the other hand, they may view Burns, who has been a career diplomat and is now head of America’s premier intelligence agency (and the real power in the USA) as a more serious figure.
Gee. Who’da thought with all the attention in trans and gays and stuff you’d miss the commie spies?
Probably.
Xi has the evidence on Biden & Family.
Sullivan had to go to Beijing to apologize and grovel.
If the balloon had not been spotted by civilians, it would have been just fine and Biden wouldn’t have to have had it shot down...........................
Biden probably sent him there to fill in everything balloon missed.
More secrets that should not be secret.
I guess we didn’t know a balloon was over our head?
Many of these “secrets” are merely so they can make deals the public would reject (political deals), hide failure, criminal activity, or moral turpitude. It’s so that these bureaucrats can save face or do some political drug deal, using the red “secret” stamp to CYA from public or legal scrutiny.
There needs to be more transparency in government.
The government knew the balloons regularly passed overhead. It wasn't until a civilian announced it that the government had to pretend they were surprised and that they were opposed to it.
Bingo. “Secret trips” aren’t made for optics.
“China was not responding to the US military’s overtures.” What happened to Milley’s Chinese General friends?
Should have shot the danged thing down the second it was noticed.
The balloon too!
> He traveled there to ask forgiveness? <
It’s probably more complicated than that.
Biden let the ChiCom balloon fly across the entire US. ChiComs are happy about that. 🙂
But then Biden shot the balloon down (to appease the American public). ChiComs are mad about that. 😠
Somebody has got to tally it all up and decide who owes who, and how much. 💰
Burns went to Beijing to meet with his Chinese counterparts
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too much risk of CTR to wire the bribe $$$
had to use diplomatic pouch?
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