Chinese jets intercept U.S surveillance plane: U.S. officials
Source: Reuters
Two Chinese fighter jets carried out an intercept of a U.S. military surveillance plane near Hong Kong on Wednesday, with one coming within 200 yards of the American aircraft, U.S. officials told Reuters.
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said initial reports showed that the U.S. P-3 surveillance plane was 150 miles South East of Hong Kong in international air space when the aircraft carried out an unsafe intercept of the plane. One Chinese aircraft flew in front of the American plane, restricting it's ability to maneuver.
A U.S. Navy warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built up by China in the South China Sea, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, the first such challenge to Beijing in the strategic waterway since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-military-idUSKBN18M25L
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,050 posts)What will wussy Trump do about it?
Russians buzzed our plane and a destroyer.
That was Trump's bff Putin.
This is the same China that the Trump family is making financial deals with.
red dog 1
(27,935 posts)Probably what he always does....he'll send out a stupid, grammatically-incorrect tweet
red dog 1
(27,935 posts)K&R
Kennah
(14,369 posts)red dog 1
(27,935 posts)Kennah
(14,369 posts)red dog 1
(27,935 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,034 posts)But maybe not long:
http://www.belfercenter.org/thucydides-trap/overview-thucydides-trap
zentrum
(9,866 posts)...wants that powerful feeling.
Damn him to hell.
That's why he's ordering the Red Air Force to intercept planes in international airspace and the Russian Air Force to buzz American ships.
Because he wants a war.