US rebuts Chinese Embassy wine bottle artillery shell claim
The United States Embassy in Port Moresby has stepped into the ongoing diplomatic back-and-forth, strongly disputing assertions by the Chinese Embassy that a military projectile recovered from a local port facility was merely a wine bottle.
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[Claude] Both reports cover the same dispute over the recovered projectile in Papua New Guinea, which Report 1 also addresses, and neither contradicts Report 1's account of the embassy claims.
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