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Theres no way you can spin it's presence in US airspace as accidental when the ground track plastered all over the news literally took it precisely over 2 US nuclear missile silo fields and Missouri where the B-2 is based.
That's exactly right. I'm not sure what the pushback on this issue is? To me, it is plain and simple; they violated airspace, and could not retract the vehicle. Accident or not, it should be removed so it does not continue to violate the airspace. The move to wait for it over the water was to avoid collateral damage. 
I'm not sure what the controversy here is, aside from China crying foul.