Since last year, American The balloons have flown high over China’s airspace without permission more than 10 times, its foreign ministry said. China.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, answering a question during a regular press briefing in Beijing, did not disclose details.

Asked how China responded to these overflights, he stated that China’s response to such incidents is responsible and professional.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said he had no information about “flying objects” shot down by the US over Alaska and Canada.

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The US has contacted China over what Washington called a “spy” balloon and a Beijing weather balloon that was shot down on Feb. 4 after the Pentagon turned down repeated requests for dialogue for days, a US Defense Department spokesman said Sunday.

On Sunday, Washington announced the shooting down of another high-rise “object”, without specifying its nature. It was the fourth aircraft shot down over the US and Canada in less than 10 days.

^{According to REUTERS}