Biden has been out of the limelight for months now. But he’s been thrust right back into view.
Because secret documents expose the extent of Biden’s collusion with China.
In a series of clandestine meetings, Biden administration State Department officials engaged in hush-hush conversations with their Beijing counterparts regarding the notorious Chinese spy balloon that breached U.S. airspace back in 2023. Trump administration sources reveal that these talks delved into the potential fallout the balloon’s exposure could unleash on the delicate U.S.-China relationship.
The saga began when U.S. authorities clocked the intrusive spy balloon infiltrating American skies on January 28, 2023. A mere six days later, on February 4, an Air Force fighter jet blasted the Chinese intruder out of the sky off South Carolina’s coast, following the Pentagon’s belated statement on the incident two days prior.
Internal State Department documents, cited by two Trump administration officials to Fox News Digital, unveil that Biden officials huddled with Beijing on February 1, 2023, to grapple with the balloon conundrum and ponder the ramifications of spilling the beans to the public.
A leaked readout of a tête-à -tête between Blinken and a senior Chinese diplomat quotes Blinken warning that public revelation of the balloon’s presence could bear “profound implications for our relationship” with China, especially as efforts to steady bilateral ties with Beijing hung in the balance.
The same readout hinted that the balloon brouhaha threatened to throw a wrench in Blinken’s early February 2023 travel itinerary to China, a trip ultimately deferred to June.
Meanwhile, a former Biden official disclosed to Fox News Digital that the State Department hauled in senior Chinese diplomat Zhu Haiquan on February 1, 2023, to demand the balloon’s removal and threaten U.S. action if China didn’t comply.
“Former Secretary Blinken advocated strongly to tell the American people about China’s rogue balloon, which is exactly what happened,” a spokesperson for the ex-secretary asserted to Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
“He has a long history of being tough on China while actually delivering results.”
Concurrently, another top State Department official held covert talks with Chinese counterparts on February 1, 2023. According to a readout cited by Trump administration officials, this official cautioned that the longer the balloon lingered, the greater the risk of public exposure and the ensuing headaches in managing the crisis.
The Pentagon finally broke its silence on February 2, 2023, admitting the U.S. government had sniffed out a “high-altitude surveillance balloon.” Then-White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Biden was briefed on January 31, 2023, but remained tight-lipped on why the administration dawdled until February 2 to go public.
Marco Rubio, then a Florida senator and now Secretary of State, relentlessly slammed the Biden administration’s sluggish disclosure and delayed takedown of the balloon.
Appearing on CNN with Jake Tapper, Rubio branded Biden’s initial inaction as the “beginning of dereliction of duty,” questioning, “Why didn’t the president go on television? He has the ability to convene the country in cameras and basically explain what we’re dealing with here.”
On February 4, 2023, an Air Force F-22 Raptor from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia obliterated the balloon off South Carolina’s coast with an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile.
The Pentagon conceded that while the balloon posed no military or physical threat, its airspace incursion trampled U.S. sovereignty, debunking China’s “weather balloon” excuse as hogwash.
“This was a PRC surveillance balloon,” a senior defense official told reporters. “This surveillance balloon purposely traversed the United States and Canada, and we are confident it was seeking to monitor sensitive military sites.”
Post-shootdown, the Pentagon revealed that similar Chinese balloons had buzzed U.S. airspace at least thrice during Trump’s first term. The senior defense official noted Biden greenlit the balloon’s demise “as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to us civilians under the balloon’s path,” citing debris concerns. In June 2023, the Pentagon backtracked, claiming the balloon likely didn’t snag any intel during its U.S. joyride.
Blinken now hobnobs as a speaker with CAA Speakers, alongside A-list celebs. A Biden spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
