China’s military on Thursday told
the United States to end air and
naval surveillance near its borders,
saying it was damaging relations
between the Pacific powers and
could lead to “undesirable
accidents”.
The US should “take concrete
measures to decrease close-in
reconnaissance activities against
China towards a complete stop”,
defence ministry spokesman Yang
Yujun said at a monthly briefing.
Yang’s comments came with
Beijing and Washington at odds
over an incident last week in the
skies 220 kilometres (135 miles) off
China’s Hainan island.
The US said that an armed Chinese
fighter jet flew dangerously close to
a US military aircraft, while China
countered in a ministry statement
carried on state media that the
allegations were “totally
groundless”.
“The location of the incident is 220
kilometres from China’s Hainan
island,” Yang said Thursday. “It is
not 220 kilometres from Hawaii in
the United States and certainly not
220 kilometres from Florida. So the
rights and wrongs of this case are
very clear.”
The encounter has raised
comparisons to an incident in April
2001, when a Chinese fighter jet
collided with a US Navy EP-3 spy
plane around 110 kilometres off
Hainan.
China’s military spending and
capabilities are increasing while the
US military, long a presence in the
region, strengthens its defence
alliance with Tokyo, which is at
odds with Beijing over disputed
islands in the East China Sea.
Yang said US ships and aircraft had
long been engaged in “frequent,
wide-range, close-in
reconnaissance activities against
China”.
Such missions “not only damage
China’s security interests but also
damage strategic trust and the
bilateral relationship between China
and the United States”.
They could also “possibly lead to
undesirable accidents”, he said.
China’s Global Times newspaper,
which is linked to the ruling
Communist Party, on Monday
warned that Beijing could treat US
surveillance flights as an “act of
hostility”.
On Thursday it said that if the US
does not end them, China could
carry out similar activities near US
territory.
Such an “option has become
increasingly possible as China’s
military technologies are
advancing”, it said in an editorial.
Separately, Taiwan said on Tuesday
that its air force scrambled fighter
jets the day before to track two
Chinese Y-8 maritime patrol
aircraft which intruded into the
island’s airspace.
Yang defended the professionalism
of China’s air force against
accusations of pilot recklessness.
“Our aircraft are very precious and
the lives of our pilots are even more
precious compared with countries
which ask their pilots to fly around
on other countries’ doorsteps,” he
said.

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Misleading topic. BTW OP it is "Threatened" not "Treating".

we are observing.......

What is our business....mitcheeuuu

Idrismusty97: Misleading topic. And OP it is "Threatened" not "Treating".

it's "Threatens"

Psylas: it's "Threatens"

Way better than "treating". Who dey sick here?

Lets wait

Psylas: it's "Threatens"

Teacher teaching teacher interesting.

eunisam: we are observing.......

what other options do you have beside "observing"

rosebowl01:

what other options do you have beside "observing"

what will be must be

US I don't know what their problem is at times. They would not just mind their own business they would like to know what is going on in every country.

lilprinze: US I don't know what their problem is at times. They would not just mind their own business they would like to know what is going on in every country.

Thanks u just spoke my mind. Why always sniffing into other soveriegn nation affairs

sinceden2:

Thanks u just spoke my mind. Why always sniffing into other soveriegn nation affairs

its good at times most especially all those Arabs countries because those guys could be dangerous. They are beginning to over do it now sha their is nothing any country Will or would do that they won't know of weather you inform them about it or not .