“After China sent a balloon over strategic sites in the United States … President Biden literally sent the secretary of state hat in hand to go kowtow and ask for a meeting.”
What PolitiFact found
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China was planned months before a Chinese surveillance balloon was spotted over U.S. airspace in February. The meeting was postponed until June.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mike Pence (former vice president and 2024 presidential candidate) made this claim around 18 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 August 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Mike Pence has 46 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 25 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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