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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

China says refused US call because atmosphere not ‘proper’

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

China has called on the US to move on from the recent diplomatic spat over a suspected spy balloon and instead focus on the mutual benefits of cooperation between the world’s biggest superpowers.

It comes after officials in Beijing admitted having let a phone call from US defence secretary Lloyd Austin ring out unanswered after an American fighter jet shot down a Chinese-made airship that had floated over key military sites on the US mainland.

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