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21 Feb 2023


The frayed relationship follows the destruction of a Chinese surveillance balloon over the continental U.S. 

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Chinese officials and delegates attend the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing May 28, 2020.

Chinese officials and delegates attend the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing May 28, 2020. (REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)

MFA officials have claimed the U.S. has used the incident — which they maintain was an accident — in order to negatively influence China's international reputation

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Wenbin continued, "If the U.S. side continues to fuss over, dramatize and escalate the unintended and isolated incident, it should not expect the Chinese side to flinch. The U.S. side should be prepared to bear all consequences arising from an escalation."

A Chinese national flag is flown at half-mast to mourn the death of Comrade Jiang Zemin at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Dec. 1, 2022. 

A Chinese national flag is flown at half-mast to mourn the death of Comrade Jiang Zemin at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Dec. 1, 2022.  (Ju Huanzong/Xinhua via Getty Images)

On President Biden's orders, the U.S. military shot down the surveillance balloon on Feb. 4 after it flew across the country over several days. Senior national security and defense officials linked the aircraft to China's global surveillance program, which the People's Liberation Army operates out of the Hainan Island provide off its southeast coastline. 

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Wenbin went on to criticize the U.S. government's repeated condemnations regarding Chinese relations with Russia. 

China, one of Russia's most powerful allies, is considering lending lethal support in the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. intelligence claims. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photo on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Sept. 15, 2022.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photo on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Sept. 15, 2022. (Alexandr Demyanchuk, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

"China is committed to promoting peace talks and has played a constructive role," Wenbin said of allegations. "The China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination is built on the basis of non-alliance, non-confrontation and non-targeting of third countries, which is within the sovereign right of any two independent states. 

He concluded, "We do not accept the U.S.’s finger-pointing or even coercion targeting China-Russia relations."

Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com

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