Costa Rica's government said Monday that China apologized for a spy balloon flying over its territory. China claims the balloon was primarily used for weather studies.
said Monday that China apologized for a intel operation flying over the Central American country's airspace.traveled across the U.S. last week, prompting criticisms of China as well as the Biden administration, for not taking the balloon down sooner. On Saturday, a military jet shot down the balloon off the Atlantic coast after days of traveling over the U.S. The incident sparked speculation about what China's goal was in sending the spy flight over the states.
China insisted that the balloons flown over the U.S. and Costa Rica were primarily used for weather studies. Costa Rica's officials were told by China that the balloon's flight path deviated from where it was originally supposed to go and that it had a limited ability to correct the error, according to the statement.
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