On Friday, the US postponed a planned trip by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing. This comes amid controversy over a Chinese surveillance balloon currently floating over the Western US. Host Carol Hills speaks with Anthony Ruggiero, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, about what Blinken would have hoped to accomplish, and how an incident like this one with the balloon can derail a conversation between two countries.
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