SHANGHAI: Beijing on Sunday (Feb 5) blasted the Pentagon's decision to shoot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over North America, accusing the United States of 'clearly overreacting and seriously violating international practice'. 'China expresses strong dissatisfaction and protests again
SHANGHAI: Beijing on Sunday blasted the Pentagon's decision to shoot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over North America, accusing the United States of"clearly overreacting and seriously violating international practice".
"China expresses strong dissatisfaction and protests against the use of force by the United States to attack the unmanned civilian airship," Beijing's foreign ministry said in a statement, adding that it would"reserve the right to make further necessary responses".
The balloon was shot down about six nautical miles off the US coast, over relatively shallow water, potentially aiding efforts to recover key elements of the Chinese surveillance equipment among the debris in the coming days, officials said. US President Joe Biden issued an order on Wednesday to take down the balloon, but the Pentagon had recommended waiting until it could be done over open water to safeguard civilians from debris crashing down to Earth from thousands of feet above commercial air traffic.
According to a senior US military official, an F-22 fighter jet took the shot at 2.39pm using a single AIM-9X supersonic, heat-seeking, air-to-air missile., was being used by China"in an attempt to surveil strategic sites in the continental United States".
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