The US military claims the Chinese jet passed directly in front of the nose of the US Air Force plane during the intercept on 26 May.
The US has said a Chinese fighter pilot performed an"unnecessarily aggressive" manoeuvre during an intercept over the South China Sea.
In a statement, the US military command responsible for the Indo-Pacific said the Chinese J-16 aircraft carried out the manoeuvre last week and forced the US RC-135 plane to fly through its wake turbulence. Wake turbulence is the disturbance in the atmosphere caused by an aircraft as it passes through the air, similar to the wake of a boat travelling through water.
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