China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning tells a regular briefing that the object is debris from a rocket's payload fairing - casing that protects the nose-cone of a spacecraft - launched by China.
China denied on Monday, November 21, that one of its coast guard ships used force to retrieve a piece of a rocket floating in the ocean that was being towed by a Philippine vessel in the South China Sea.
“People from the Philippines side salvaged and towed the floating object first. After both sides had a friendly negotiation at the scene, the Philippines handed over the floating object to us,” Mao said.
Harris, whose three-day trip includes a stop on Palawan, an island on the edge of the South China Sea, will also reaffirm US support for a 2016 international tribunal ruling that invalidated China’s expansive claim in the disputed waterway, a senior US official said.
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