Chinese jet carried out 'aggressive' maneuver near US military plane, Pentagon saysA Chinese fighter jet carried out an "unnecessarily aggressive" maneuver near a U.S. military plane over the South China Sea in international airspace, the United States said on Tuesday.
The U.S. military command responsible for the Indo-Pacific said the maneuver by a Chinese J-16 aircraft occurred last week and forced the U.S. RC-135 plane to fly through its wake turbulence.
"The United States will continue to fly, sail, and operate – safely and responsibly – wherever international law allows," it said in a statement.
A video showed a fighter jet passing in front of the U.S. plane's nose and the cockpit of the RC-135 shaking in the turbulence.
The spokesperson for China's embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, did not comment on the specifics, but said that for a long time, the United States had "frequently deployed aircraft and vessels for close-in reconnaissance on China, which poses a serious danger to China’s national security."
"China urges the US to stop such dangerous provocations, and stop deflecting blame on China," Liu said in a emailed response to a request for comment on the U.S. military statement............
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