China acted irresponsibly by violating the US sovereignty:Ned Price

US will look at continuing the broader efforts to expose and address China's larger surveillance activities that pose a threat to its security and that to its allies, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a press briefing. Ned Price said that the US exploring taking action against Chinese entities linked to the People's Liberation Army that supported the balloon's incursion into US airspace. The statement of Price comes after the US last week shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon which hovered in its skies for a few days. We are always going to protect our interests, we did so in the tactical case of this balloon. We also said in the release that you mentioned we are exploring taking an action against PRC entities linked to the PLA that supported the balloon's incursion into US airspace, Ned Price said."We will look at continuing these broader efforts to expose and to address PRC's larger surveillance activities that pose a threat to our national security and that to our allies and partners as well," he added.

Ned Price said that China acted "irresponsibly" by violating the US sovereignty, calling it a "profoundly irresponsible act." He stated that China's "irresponsible actions" were visible to the US and to the world. He said that US has been engaging with 40 nations regarding China's balloon incident. Expressing his remarks on engaging with partners of the US on the issue, Ned Price said, "We have engaged with them via the state department in Washington and our embassies around the world. This is a program that threatened and violated our sovereignty but the sovereignty of dozens of countries."