BEIJING: China urged the United States on Tuesday to conduct a "thorough investigation" into what Beijing claims was a string of incursions into its airspace by US balloons.

Relations between Washington and Beijing have nosedived following the shooting down of what the US alleges was a Chinese spy balloon. China insisted it was an errant weather observation aircraft with no military purpose.

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