Blinken meets China’s Wang Yi, warns against helping Russia

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned China against providing “lethal support” for Russia’s spop in Ukraine and condemned the violation of United States airspace by an alleged Chinese spying balloon as he held rare talks with Beijing’s top diplomat, Wang Yi.

The meeting of the two senior officials happened late on Saturday on the sidelines of a global security conference in Munich, Germany, just hours after Wang scolded Washington as “hysterical” in a running dispute over the US’s downing of the suspected Chinese spy balloon.