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China decline phone call with US over balloon incident
China declined a proposed phone call with the United States because the US side hadn’t created “an appropriate atmosphere” for the call, a Chinese defense ministry spokesperson said on Thursday.
The US side’s insistence on shooting down China’s civilian unmanned airship was a serious violation of international practice and has set a bad precedent, spokesperson Tan Kefei said.
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