The US military has shot down a Chinese balloon, which it says was a surveillance craft, off the coast of South Carolina.
Beijing condemned the move, they maintain it was a civilian weather balloon that had blown off course.
Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane reports from Washington, DC.
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