(ANSA) - BEIJING, FEBRUARY 19 - If the United States "insists on taking advantage of the issue" of the Chinese spy balloon shot down over American skies, "by intensifying the clamor and widening the situation, China will go on to the end and the United States will pay for it all the consequences".
This is the warning of the head of diplomacy of the Chinese Communist Party Wang Yi, in yesterday's conversation with the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the Munich security conference.
"China is deeply dissatisfied with the matter and is protesting solemnly," Wang added, according to a Chinese diplomat report.
China reiterated its "solemn position on the so-called airship crash, stressing that what the United States did was a typical abuse of force, in clear violation of international practices and civil aviation conventions."
Wang, who "at the request of the US side had informal contacts" (not talks, in the Mandarin version of events) with Blinken, accused the US of being the "largest monitoring and reconnaissance country in the world: high-altitude balloons repeatedly flew over the China illegally, so they are not qualified to slander and defame China."
For these reasons, "what the United States must do is to show sincerity, address and resolve the damages caused by the
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