February 06, 2023 08:25 am | Updated 09:10 am IST - Beijing
A jet flies by a suspected Chinese spy balloon as it floats off the coast in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, U.S. February 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters
China on February 6 urged the United States to not escalate tension or take further action to harm China's interests in response to the shooting down of a Chinese unmanned airship that it said was civilian in nature and entered U.S. airspace by accident.
“China firmly opposes and strongly protests against this”, China’s Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said in remarks to the U.S. embassy in China. “The Chinese government is closely following the development of the situation”.
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