Blinkin and Wang Yi met for the first time since the balloon accident

Moscow, February 18 – US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, held a meeting in Munich on Saturday for the first time since the incident. With the Chinese balloon, News Agency reported, quoting an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The US military shot down four air targets in February, including a Chinese zeppelin that crossed the US and intercepted it over the Atlantic Ocean. In Washington they say that the airship was launched for the purpose of espionage, in Beijing they say that we are talking about a missing civil weather balloon. The affiliation and purpose of the other three objects that were dropped the other day were not determined.

The Munich conference opened on Friday, and for the second year in a row the Russian Federation does not participate in it, despite the fears of a number of politicians and experts that building security and striving for peace without dialogue with Moscow is impossible. The main topic of the conference is the crisis in Ukraine. At a conference last year in Munich, Volodymyr Zelensky threatened to reconsider Ukraine’s renunciation of nuclear weapons.