China’s top diplomat has lashed out at the US, calling Washington’s decision to shoot down a balloon in American airspace “hysterical and absurd”.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Wang Yi, who holds the top foreign policy position in China’s communist party, said the shooting down “ignored basic facts” and was evidence that the US had made a strategic miscalculation about China.
“Across the globe there are many balloons from many countries. Do you want to shoot down every one of them?” Wang said. “It did not show that the US is strong. On contrary, it showed the opposite. We urge the US not to do such preposterous things in order to divert attention from its domestic problems.”
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