Editor’s Note: There have been an alarming number of encounters between U.S. and Chinese military forces in areas near the mainland Chinese coast and airspace in recent days. The following article details an incident involving a U.S.
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The People's Republic of China is accusing the U.S. military of interfering with naval exercises leading to an aerial encounter that the Americans called "unsafe." The controversy surrounds a confrontation in the skies above the South China Sea when a Chinese pilot flew past the front end of an Air Force reconnaissance aircraft. U.S. Indo-Pacific
China said on Wednesday that a U.S. RC-135 surveillance aircraft deliberately broke into a Chinese military training area in the South China Sea on May 26 to carry out reconnaissance and interference.
Beijing blamed US "provocation" Wednesday for an incident last week in which a Chinese plane crossed in front of an American surveillance aircraft over the South China Sea.