China has made it clear that the unmanned civilian airship that flew over U.S. terriory was an sudden and remoted occasion, the overseas ministry stated on Tuesday.

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“China rejects distortion and hyping up of this incident,” spokesperson Mao Ning stated at a press briefing when answering a query on the Pentagon saying that it couldn’t verify China collected real-time information from the balloon earlier this yr.