Russia says China acting responsibly over balloon incident
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Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday that he was confident China was taking the responsible course of action over an incident in which a Chinese balloon travelled into U.S. airspace, the RIA news agency reported.
The United States, which said the object was a surveillance balloon, has shot it down. China maintains that it was a civilian aircraft and protested the response as an "obvious overreaction".
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