China is said to have told its military not to fire first in the South China Sea as tensions with the U.S. rise over the disputed waters.
carried out drills in the South China Sea, as well as nighttime aerial reconnaissance missions near Guangdong and Fujian provinces.
While China has also conducted naval drills and flyovers around Taiwan, a Chinese military source told thethat its personnel have been told"not to fire the first shot" and said if there is a repeat of 2001's Hainan incident—when a U.S. intelligence aircraft collided with a People's Liberation Army fighter jet—there would far more serious consequences today.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech on China at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on July 23, 2020 in Yorba Linda, California. He has criticized China's actions in the South China Sea."Today, the PLA has developed many countermeasures.
"I suspect this order to the PLA was issued at or before the talks between the two defense ministers, but was deliberately revealed to the press now to add credibility to the recent call by Chinese diplomats to dial down tensions and reopen talks," said Yinan He, associate professor of international relations at Pennsylvania's Lehigh University.
US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets multirole fighters and an EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft onboard USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier as it sails in the South China Sea in October 2019."China initially turned its back to Esper's request for a talk. Having realized how precarious the situation was turning, Beijing took a multi-pronged action to mitigate the risk of an inadvertent military clash with the U.S.
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