US, China Military Aircraft Have “Unsafe, Close Encounter” Over Contested Islands

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Feb 9, 2017

After years of ‘close encounters’ of the Russian-kind, it appears the US military has found a new nation to fly close to. Nine months after China demanded US “immediately cease” spying near its borders, CNN reports that there was an “unsafe” close encounter between a US Navy P-3 Orion aircraft and a Chinese surveillance aircraft Wednesday in the general vicinity of the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.

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