A senior U.S. official denied China's accusations that the United States flew multiple balloons into its airspace over the past year.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby rejected the allegation and revealed that the U.S. has communicated with Chinese leaders in"private settings" about the balloon incidents."Not true. Not doing it. Just absolutely not true," Kirby told MSNBC's Morning Joe."We are not flying balloons over China."
Tensions have flared up between Beijing and Washington following revelations that a suspected Chinese high-altitude spy balloon drifted through U.S. airspace for days, starting on Jan. 28 and spanning until Feb. 4, when a fighter jet shot it down. Over the past several days, the military has identified at least three unidentified objects hovering in the atmosphere, including one over Lake Huron, Alaska, and Canada’s Yukon territory. It is not immediately clear whether any of those objects had ties to China.
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