CIA Director Bill Burns secretly visited Beijing to meet with Chinese intelligence officials, indicating growing concerns within the Biden administration about the deteriorating relations with China, and marking the highest-level trip by a Biden official to China.
Chinese embassy spokesperson urges U.S. to "show sincerity" and "take concrete actions to create the conditions and atmosphere needed for communication."
A non-governmental organization, Safeguard Defenders, previously exposed that Chinese government police stations were disguised as "service stations" across the globe to spy on and harass anti-communist individuals.
A report from NBC News claimed the Chinese spy balloon was able to translate data from electronic signals back to Beijing in real-time, despite the Biden administration saying otherwise.