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China has claimed US high-altitude balloons have flown over its airspace more than 10 times over the past year.

Beijing has made the claim after Washington accused China of operating a fleet of surveillance balloons around the world.

The development comes a day after US jets shot down a fourth flying object that the Pentagon said flew near sensitive military sites and was a risk to civilian aircraft.

It was downed over Lake Huron in Michigan at 2.42pm local time on Sunday on President Joe Biden's orders.

The row started when a suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down by the US off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month.

Ships were deployed in the water to mount the recovery operation.

'US balloons illegally enter airspace'

China's foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has given no details about the alleged US balloons today.

He did not explain how they had been dealt with, or whether they had government or military links.

He said at a daily briefing: "It is also common for US balloons to illegally enter the airspace of other countries.

[b]"Since last year, US high-altitude balloons have illegally flown over China's airspace more than 10 times without the approval of Chinese authorities."

The US should "first reflect on itself and change course, rather than smear and instigate a confrontation,"[/b] the Chinese spokesman added.

China said the balloon shot down by the US over South Carolina was an unmanned airship made for meteorological research that had been blown off course.

It has accused the US of overreacting by shooting it down and threatened to take unspecified action in response.

'Heightened alert' after latest 'objects'

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled a visit to Beijing following the sighting of the balloon earlier this month.

Many had hoped the visit would put the brakes on the sharp decline in US-China relations over Taiwan, trade, human rights and threatening Chinese actions in the disputed South China Sea.

The balloon was equipped to detect and collect intelligence signals as part of a huge, military-linked aerial surveillance programme that targeted more than 40 countries, the Biden istration declared on Thursday, citing imagery from American U-2 spy planes.

US Air Force general Glen VanHerck itted he did not know what the last three objects were or how they stayed aloft before being shot down.

However, he told reporters they were not the same as the balloon which started the row.

"We're calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason," he said - also refusing to rule out any explanation when asked if they could be extra-terrestrial.

Part of the reason for the repeated shootdowns is a "heightened alert" following the alleged Chinese spy balloon, General VanHerck said.

The United States has placed economic restrictions on six Chinese entities it said are linked to Beijing's aerospace programmes as part of its response to the incident.

The US House of Representatives also voted unanimously to condemn China for a "brazen violation" of US sovereignty and efforts to "deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns".

China defends use of laser in new incident

Wang Wenbin repeated China's dismissal of the US claims, saying: "The frequent firing of advanced missiles by the US to shoot down the objects is an over-reaction of over-exertion."

Meanwhile, on Monday the Philippines accused a Chinese coastguard ship of targeting a Filipino vessel with a military-grade laser and temporarily blinding some of its crew in the South China Sea, calling it a "blatant" violation of Manila's sovereign rights.

China said the Philippines coastguard ship had tresed into Chinese waters without permission on 6 February and that China responded "professionally and with restraint".

China claims virtually all of the strategic waterway and has been steadily building up its maritime forces and island outposts.

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Uncle sam go do him own. If that same country now do their own uncle sam go dey cry like baby. Hypocritical America.

We dea watch

I want to watch live Olympus has fallen 😂

I'm eagerly waiting for the return leg 🦵...dam sure chinko go fire 🔥 back ⬅️ let the games begin🌝

But them dey claim saints 😏

Ok we are watching

Whataboutism after being caught red-handed.

I can't wait for China and the USA to go into a war.

Dey play

Ok. World powerful country no be moimoi

Make these two nations fight already...
Tired of all their jab throwing comments

UsA own too much. Always dishing out what they can't take.

This is a typical case of agbado urchins accusing obi of fraud while there principal is the greatest certified thief

Okay

China dey learn nal

Not our problem.
Our problem here na fuel scarcity, naira scarcity, job scarcity and bad governance by Buhari.
Na person wey don chop belleful dey get energy pursue balloon to go burst am!

So they now it it is deliberate.

Useless China, make them bomb that foolish country

China will never come close to US in power, they can only try but bound to fail. How can an isolated country like China or North Korea ever think they can defeat US with strong Allies. US will surround you with enemies, even your own people will be working against you internally. Liberty will always win.
US get sense

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But one thing is already crystal clear: While the war is not yet over, Ukraine has lost. Grasping that, we must first bring the fighting quickly to an end. Then we must mourn the dead. And, finally, we must get on with the task of rebuilding the country that Vladimir Putin has destroyed. Andrew Latham is a professor of international relations at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., and a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Twitter @aalatham https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3261607-the-war-is-not-yet-over-but-ukraine-has-already-lost/



We all know at the end USA will chicken out from acting tough like they chicken out from Vietnam and Afghanistan.

He who is domiciled in a glazed edifice should not catapult with igneous calculi

I miss Donald Trump 😢

China satalite in space has all the data of USA under ground nuke positions the world is prepared to humble the evil nato nations.



The clown zElensky is running away and telling his soldiers to keep fighting. He no longer wants to stay in his bunker. I thought his last visit to the US would give him victory.......


. The last person to address the UK parliament in Westminster Hall, to a standing ovation was Aung San Suu Kyi. She is currently in jail in Myanmar.

Guess what will be Zelensky’s fate?


God bless putin God bless mother Russia.

Continue

No war please

I always pity does that want russia to win ukraine. What most of you people don't realize is how america is in countering russia and china . If russia wins china would want to take over taiwan , when they come to collect naija crude oil wells for debt una go sabi dem don show zambia small shege dry play jus dey play

Make dem fight
Their wahala too much