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| PLAAF J-11B that buzzed a US Navy P-8A |
China should set up a military base in the Pacific to counter US surveillance activities, said a Chinese military expert after a near-collision between a Chinese fighter jet and US reconnaisance aircraft in the South China Sea last week.
On the morning of Aug. 19, a Chinese J-11 fighter jet from the People's Liberation Army made an "aggressive" and "dangerous" intercept of a US P-8 Poseidon reconnaisance aircraft about 220 kilometers east of Hainan island in the South China Sea, the Pentagon revealed on Friday.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said at a news conference that the two planes came within nine meters of each other, describing the incident as "very, very close, very dangerous."
"We have registered our strong concerns to the Chinese about the unsafe and unprofessional intercept, which posed a risk to the safety and the well-being of the air crew and was inconsistent with customary international law," Kirby said.
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