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Taiwan's Defense Ministry, in a statement, said the balloon carried equipment registered to a state-owned electronics company in the northern city of Taiyuan.
It's not clear what China could have learned from a spy balloon that it wouldn't have already known from its armada of satellites.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Tuesday reiterated that the “unmanned airship” posed no threat and entered U.S. airspace accidentally.
“China had too much respect for ‘TRUMP,’" the former president wrote, calling the Pentagon's claim of "at least three" incidents "fake disinformation."
The abrupt decision comes despite China’s claim that the balloon was a weather research satellite that had blown off course.