WASHINGTON - A Chinese fighter jet carried out an 'unnecessarily aggressive' manoeuvre near a US military plane over the South China Sea in international airspace, the United States said on Tuesday. The US military command responsible for the Indo-Pacific said the manoeuvre by a Chinese J-16 aircraft occurred last week and forced the US RC-135 plane to fly through its...
WASHINGTON - A Chinese fighter jet carried out an "unnecessarily aggressive" manoeuvre near a US military plane over the South China Sea in international airspace, the United States said on Tuesday.
The spokesperson for China's embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, did not comment on the specifics, but said that for a long time, the United States had "frequently deployed aircraft and vessels for close-in reconnaissance on China, which poses a serious danger to China’s national security." Beijing has frequently said that the United States sending ships and aircraft into the South China Sea is not good for peace.
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