China’s balloon incursion ‘must never happen again’, says US

(Petr David Josek/AP)

Top diplomats from the US and China have met in the first high-level contact between the two countries since the US shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, held the hour-long talks in Munich, where they were attending an international security conference, according to the US State Department.