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China condemns US for shooting down spy balloon

Washington | The US shot down an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast on Saturday (Sunday AEDT), capping days of waiting as it traversed the country and injected new tension into relations with China.

President Joe Biden said he ordered the Pentagon on Wednesday to down the balloon as soon as possible “without doing damage to anyone on the ground”. The military decided the best window was on Saturday while it was over the Atlantic within US territorial waters.

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