US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is currently canceling a high-profile visit to China after a Chinese surveillance balloon flew over American soil, according to sources within the US Foreign Ministry.
Blinken would have met China’s leader Xi Jinping during the visit, which would have started on Sunday.
The meeting would be the first between a US secretary of state and China’s leader in six years, when relations between the capitals are very frosty.