strait as its own water while the u.s. said it views it as an open ind o pacific. a chinese fighter jet intercepted a u.s. spy plane in international airspace just last week. what is china s strategy here? it certainly seems like we re seeing more of these encounters. this happened oafver the south china sea. this time it was a u.s. reconnaissance aircraft, rc-135 that the u.s. says was in international airspace doing what it s allowed to do when it was intercepted by a chinese fighter jet, a j-16 that cut right in front of the u.s. aircraft, close enough that the wake turbulence of that jet rattled or disturbed the u.s. aircraft. for china it appears this is essentially trying to establish this is chinese territory or areas with chinese sovereignty.
donald trump said do a default. for them to say that what the democrats want is a debt ceiling increase is frankly unpatriotic. it s immoral, and it s dangerous because every single congress for generations has come together in a bipartisan way and said america can pay its bills. and what congressman good just said is democrats are getting what they want by making sure millions of people don t lose their jobs. that is absurd. we need to be back at a place where we have a country where both parties agree that america won t default and we won t harm people for political purposes. really appreciate it. thank you very much. now to an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver, that s how the u.s. military is describing a jarring encounter between a chinese fighter jet and an american reconnaissance plane. the department of defense releasing this video showing that chinese j-16 cutting right in front of the u.s. aircraft forcing it to then fly into turbulence.
The Chinese J-16 aircraft is said to have forced an American RC-135 on routine operations in international airspace to fly through its wake turbulence.