Despite reaching out to Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe through a special crisis line, the Chinese official declined the call, leaving Austin's efforts unanswered.
The US House of Representatives is expected to pass a resolution blaming China for a "brazen violation of United States sovereignty" and accusing it of trying to "deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns."
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is seeking a probe into why Trump was unaware of previous Chinese spy balloons that the Biden admin. claim occurred during his presidency
While the country was distracted by the Chinese spy balloon over the weekend, the Biden admin. secretly freed one of the September 11th terrorist planners from Gitmo.
The Chinese foreign ministry responded to the U.S. military shooting down its spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday by claiming without evidence that the balloon was a civilian object and that the country was extremely upset by the action.