China confirmed Monday that a balloon identified by Washington and Bogota flying over Latin America is Chinese, after a similar device was shot down by the United States over the weekend.
had been detected and "monitored until it left the national air space."
Beijing's foreign ministry Monday said the object was "from China" and that it was of "a civilian nature and used for flight tests."
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