U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that three unidentified objects shot down by U.S. fighter jets were likely tied to private companies or research institutions.
China says the 60-metre balloon was for monitoring weather conditions, but Washington says it clearly was a surveillance balloon with a massive undercarriage containing electronics.
He said the U.S. intelligence community was still trying to learn more about the three unidentified objects: one that was shot down over Alaska, one over Canada and a third that plunged into Lake Huron. The administration has said they were downed because they posed a threat to civil aviation. Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 are shown on Feb. 5 recovering a suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon that was downed a day earlier by the United States over U.S. territorial waters off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The U.S. "should be willing to meet China in the middle, manage differences and appropriately handle isolated, unexpected incidents to avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments; and promote the return of U.S.-China relations to a healthy and stable development track," spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters at a regular briefing.
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