Statement from U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Ambassador Dr. John Nkengasong, on Use of the PEPFAR Platform for Monkeypox Response

As the new year got underway in China, hopes appeared to be running high that an easing of tensions with the United States could unfold in the months ahead.

China's Foreign Ministry said the craft was a lost civilian balloon, the same explanation it gave for a suspected spy balloon that drifted over the US.