China has expressed its 'strong dissatisfaction and protest' against Washington's decision to shoot down its balloon, accusing it of 'overreacting' and 'seriously violating international practice.'
US military fighter jets on Saturday shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean in a mission President Biden hailed as a successhas expressed its "strong dissatisfaction and protest" against Washington's decision to shoot down its balloon, accusing it of "overreacting" and "seriously violating international practice."
"The Chinese side has repeatedly informed the US side after verification that the airship is for civilian use and entered the US due to force majeure -- it was completely an accident," the Foreign Ministry said. US officials have pushed back on China's repeated claims the downed balloon was simply for civilian use and had made its way into American airspace by "accident,"The spy balloon was first spotted in the sky over Montana earlier this week and traveled across the middle of the country
Pentagon officials earlier this week said the balloon posed no "military or physical" threat. The US decided against shooting down the balloon while it remained over land due to the risk of falling debris hurting a civilian and instead waited until it was over the ocean.The incident is the latest in a series of spying cases and has fueled a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Washington.
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