Chinese defense ministry says US balloon ‘attack’ was ‘overreaction’

China said the blimp was a weather balloon that went off course. (Image: Reuters/Disclosure)

The Ministry of Defense of China protested this Sunday against the “attack” of U.S against an unmanned Chinese airship in the US, saying it was an “obvious overreaction”.

China reserves the right to use whatever means necessary to deal with similar situations, Tan Kefei, a ministry spokesman, said in a statement, without elaborating.

A US military fighter shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, a week after it entered US airspace for the first time and sparked a dramatic — and public — spy saga that has soured relations. Chinese-American.

China said the airship was a weather balloon that had veered off course.

Source: Moneytimes

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