The Chinese government is stepping up its aggressive action against American interests, choosing to perform what U.S. officials are calling an “unnecessary aggressive maneuver” in the path of a U.S. surveillance plane, an RC-135. The move caused the plane to have to fly through the fighter jet’s wake turbulence. GO DEEPER
U.S. officials released a statement on the affair, charging, “The RC-135 was conducting safe and routine operations over the South China Sea in international airspace, in accordance with international laws……[the Chinese fighter] flew an unsafe maneuver by flying in front of and within 20 feet of the nose of the RC-135 forcing (the pilot) to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision.”
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