The Pentagon said the U.S. plane was “conducting safe and routine operations … in international airspace, in accordance with international law' when it encountered the 'unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” by the Chinese fighter jet
A Chinese fighter jet flew directly in front of the nose of a U.S. reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea on Saturday,, another in a rising number of incidents involving Chinese military aircraft and ships.
The “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” by the Chinese J-16 forced the U.S. RC-125 to fly through the fighter jet’s wake turbulence, according to the Pentagon, The Pentagon said that the U.S. plane was “conducting safe and routine operations … in international airspace, in accordance with international law.”
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