China's top diplomat terms US balloon claim as 'hysterical and absurd'

Updated : Feb 20, 2023 20:25
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China on Saturday lambasted the US for claiming its balloons as surveillance objects and termed it as "hysterical and absurd". Addressing a gathering of world leaders at the Munich Security Conference, China's top diplomat Wang Yi alleged the US of trying to "smear" the Asian giant while it itself was implementing policies that ran counter to its paradigms such as free trade.

Washington, he said, had the wrong view of China as a serious geopolitical challenge and a threat to the United States. "This is a misguided perception of China and with this perception, the United States is using all of its means to smear and clamp down China, and is co-opting other countries to do the same," he said.

He said that US President Joe Biden's administration has a "misguided" perception of Beijing.

"There are many balloons from many countries in the sky. Do you want to down each and every one of them?" said Wang. He also urged the US "not to do such preposterous things simply to divert attention from its own domestic problems.

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