A Chinese fighter jet flew directly in front of the nose of a U.S. reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea, the Pentagon says, another in a rising number of incidents involving Chinese military aircraft and ships.
A Chinese fighter jet flew directly in front of the nose of a U.S. reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea on Saturday, the Pentagon said Tuesday, another in a rising number of incidents involving Chinese military aircraft and ships.
A senior Defense Department official said, “We have seen an alarming increase in the number of risky aerial intercepts and confrontations at sea by PLA aircraft and vessels. As leaders have said, actions such as these have the potential to create an unsafe incident or miscalculation."
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