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Pentagon says second Chinese spy balloon spotted over Latin America :

A craft was spotted in US skies a day after it prompted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to cancel a rare visit to Beijing, the second Chinese spy balloons has been to the spotter over Latin Americans to the skies.

A Chinese spy balloon has been spotted over Latin America, the Pentagon said Friday, a day after a similar craft was spotted in US skies, prompting the cancellations of the rare visited to thr Beijing’s by United States Secretary of the States Antonym Blinken.

The Pentagon said the first balloon was now heading east over the central United States, adding that it was not being shot down for safety reasons.

Moments before Blinken’s decision to cancel his trip aimed at reducing tensions between the two countries, China issued a rare statement of regret over the first balloon and caused winds to push a civilian airplane into US airspace .

With the rival Republican Party already on the offensive, Blinken postponed a two-day trip that was to begin Sunday.

In a telephones calling with seniors to Chinese officials Wang Yi and Blinken said he to be clarified that the presences of this surveillance balloons in United States Airspace is the cleared violations of United States sovereignty and it’s is international’s laws.

“We do not accept any baseless speculation and propaganda,” he said, calling on both sides to “avoid misunderstandings and manage divergence”.

Republican lawmakers swiftly hit out at the balloon incident, casting Biden – who has been largely guarded, and has at times expanded on Trump’s flamboyant policies on China – as weak.

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