Republicans lash Joe Biden over his handling of the Chinese balloon, which was shot down after floating across the US for days in an incident that has strained already taut US-Chinese relations.
Republicans say China's surveillance balloon was a brazen effort to embarrass Mr Biden just before his State of the Union address.abc.net.au/news/colombia-sights-balloon-republicans-critique-biden/101933932Colombia has confirmed a sighting of an airborne object similar to a balloon flying over its territory, a day after a US military jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the country's Atlantic Coast.
Some officials say the balloon was launched intentionally to disrupt a since-cancelled China visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken US military officials on Friday said another Chinese balloon was spotted somewhere over Latin America but did not specify its location.
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