China accuses the US of lying to the world about spy surveillance aircraft

Beijing has ramped up its rhetoric toward the United States in the wake of the U.S. Air Force shooting down a Chinese aircraft capable of surveillance.

The stern statement came the day after Republicans and Democrats united in a 419-0 vote to condemn Beijing for a "brazen violation" of U.S. sovereignty and efforts to "deceive the international community through false claims about its intelligence collection campaigns."

House Republicans also criticized the Biden administration for not acting sooner to shoot down the aircraft as it hovered from Montana to South Carolina, though defense officials said they disabled its surveillance capabilities.