China balloon: US going to take care of it, says Joe Biden

President Joe Biden says the US is "going to instrumentality attraction of" a suspected Chinese spy balloon that has been flying crossed the US successful caller days.

Mr Biden, who did not connection further details, is facing aggravated unit domestically to sprout the entity down.

Officials advised against specified a determination owed to the information of falling debris.

Later connected Saturday the US Federal Aviation Administration said it had stopped postulation astatine 3 airports "in enactment of a nationalist information effort".

One of the affected airports is Myrtle Beach International successful South Carolina - the authorities the balloon was said to beryllium heading towards.

The balloon's accomplishment implicit the US comes amid fraying tensions betwixt Washington and Beijing, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling disconnected a travel to Beijing implicit the matter.

Mr Blinken said the "surveillance" balloon's beingness was "an irresponsible act". However, China - which says it is simply a upwind vessel blown astray - has urged "cool-headed" handling of the dispute.

The elephantine achromatic balloon was past spotted implicit Missouri and is expected to scope the eastbound seashore of the US adjacent the Carolinas during the weekend.

In different development, the US reported a 2nd Chinese balloon floating implicit Latin America connected Friday.

China, which has expressed regret implicit the incident, said connected Saturday it had "never violated the territory and airspace of immoderate sovereign country".

In a statement, its overseas ministry played down the cancellation of Mr Blinken's sojourn and said neither broadside had formally announced specified a plan.

It added that Beijing "would not judge immoderate groundless conjecture oregon hype" and accused "some politicians and media successful the United States" of utilizing the incidental "as a pretext to onslaught and smear China."

According to US officials, the balloon floated implicit Alaska and Canada earlier appearing implicit the US authorities of Montana, which is location to a fig of delicate atomic rocket sites.

The incidental angered apical US officials, with Mr Blinken saying helium had told Beijing the balloon's beingness was "a wide usurpation of US sovereignty and planetary law" and "an irresponsible act" connected the eve of his sojourn to China.

America's apical diplomat had been acceptable to sojourn Beijing from 5 to 6 February to clasp talks connected a wide scope of issues, including security, Taiwan and Covid-19. It would person been the archetypal high-level US-China gathering determination successful years.

But plans faltered aft US defence officials announced they were tracking a elephantine surveillance balloon implicit the US connected Thursday.

While the Pentagon said the balloon was "travelling astatine an altitude good supra commercialized aerial traffic" and did "not contiguous a subject oregon carnal menace to radical connected the ground", its beingness has sparked outrage.

On Friday, China yet acknowledged the balloon was its property, saying it was a civilian airship utilized for meteorological research, which deviated from its way due to the fact that of atrocious weather.

And precocious connected Friday, the Pentagon said a 2nd Chinese spy balloon had been spotted - this clip implicit Latin America with reported sightings implicit Costa Rica and Venezuela.

China has truthful acold made nary nationalist comments connected the reported 2nd balloon.