Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping fumed at U.S. efforts to restrict Beijing’s access to advanced Western technology as a week of tensions over a downed Chinese balloon punctuated a wider diplomatic struggle for influence and cooperation. That broadside coincided with a more specific denunciation of a U.S. initiative to prevent China from purchasing the machinery needed to manufacture high-end microchips, or semiconductors. (Fred Dufour/Pool Photo via AP)The detection of the balloon last week by a photojournalist in Montana resulted in the cancellation of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s expected trip to China. “We have completed in decades the industrialization process that had taken developed Western countries hundreds of years,” Xi said Tuesday in an address to regime officials, per a South China Morning Post translation. “And this is part of that, and we need to be attentive to that strategic view.”Washington Examiner VideosTags: China, News, Foreign Policy, National Security, Xi JinpingOriginal Author: Joel GehrkeOriginal Location: Xi Jinping fumes at US efforts to rally allies against China
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