Chinese Jet fighter flies terrifyingly
close to a United States aircraft in a “very dangerous” unpleasant incident in intercontinental
air space east of Hainan Island.
The recent event raised another underlined
and tensions to the growing rivalry between United States and China, as Beijing
building up military bases asserting its protective claims transversely to the
Pacific.
“August 19, armed Chinese fighter
jet performed a dangerous intercept on a United States Navy Poseidon patrol P-8
aircraft that was on its routine mission,” Rear Admiral Kirby told in a news
conference.
The close encounter was about 220
kilometers east China’s Hainan.
“We have recorded our strong apprehension to the Chinese about its unprofessional
and unsafe intercept, which posed threat to the safety of the air crew and was
inconsistent with customary international law,” Kirby added.
The Chinese move threatened to
jeopardize longstanding United States efforts to strengthen relations with
China’s military.
The armed Chinese plane came
close to our surveillance aircraft three times, flying underneath our American
plane, at P-8′s nose and then in parallel with its wingtips, less than nine meters apart,
according to Kirby.
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