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February 5, 2023 4 mins

There's likely to be political fallout from America's decision to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the US East Coast.

China has condemned the move, saying it now "reserves the right" to "deal with similar situations".

Washington and Beijing were due to hold their highest-level talks in some years, but those meetings have now been put on ice.

US Correspondent Richard Arnold says there's a lot of talk about why Chinese President Xi Jinping would do something like this.

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