China says will safeguard interests over balloon shootdown

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  • But it doesn’t look like any weather balloon that Cheng Ming-dian, head of Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau, has seen.“In the meteorology world, I haven’t found a person who has seen or heard of a weather balloon that looks like this,” Cheng said.
  • Beijing’s attitude has hardened considerably following a surprisingly mild initial response on Friday, in which it described the balloon’s presence as an accident and expressed “regret” for the balloon having entered the U.S.
  • BEIJING (AP) — China said Tuesday it will “resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests” over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon by the United States, as relations between the two countries deteriorate further.
  • Asked if China wanted the debris returned, she only reasserted that the balloon “belongs to China.” “The balloon does not belong to the U.S.
  • China claims it was a civilian balloon used for meteorological research but has refused to say to which government department or company it belongs.
  • Mao again criticized the U.S. for overreacting rather than adopting a “calm, professional” manner, and for using force in bringing the balloon down Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean just off the U.S. coast.
BEIJING (AP) China said Tuesday it will resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon by the United States, as relations between t [+4081 chars]