{"id":22191,"date":"2017-07-25T16:14:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/07\/25\/china-fires-back-at-us-accusations-over-aerial-encounter\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:06:37","slug":"china-fires-back-at-us-accusations-over-aerial-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/2017\/07\/25\/china-fires-back-at-us-accusations-over-aerial-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"China fires back at US accusations over aerial encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BEIJING \u2014 China on Tuesday denied its fighter jet pilots operated dangerously during an encounter with a U.S. surveillance plane in international airspace in which the American pilot took evasive action to avoid a possible collision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spokesman Ren Guoqiang said in a statement on the defense ministry\u2019s microblog that the performance of the pilots of the two J-10 fighters was \u201clegal, necessary and professional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ren criticized frequent close-in surveillance runs by U.S. planes as raising the chance of accidents, saying such missions \u201cthreatened China\u2019s national security, harmed China-U.S. sea-air military safety, endangered the safety of pilots from the two sides and were the root cause of China-U.S. sea-air unexpected incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. should stop such \u201cunsafe, unprofessional and unfriendly military activities,\u201d Ren said, in a repetition of China\u2019s standard policy toward U.S. surveillance missions intended at collecting Chinese computer and voice data in hopes of gaining insight into the workings of the People\u2019s Liberation Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked about the incident at a daily briefing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Beijing objected to such missions but remained \u201ccommitted to building military mutual trust with other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Chinese J-10s intercept US Navy EP-3 in ‘unsafe’ maneuver<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said the Chinese fighters intercepted the U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane Sunday in international airspace between the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, in an area he described as west of the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis said one of the Chinese planes approached at a high rate of speed from beneath the American plane, then slowed and pulled up, prompting the EP-3 pilot to take evasive action. He called the Chinese pilot\u2019s move unsafe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China in 2013 declared an air defense identification zone over a partly contested portion of the East China Sea, demanding foreign aircraft declare their presence and follow Chinese orders. The U.S. and others swiftly dismissed the zone as invalid and have largely ignored it. It wasn\u2019t clear if Sunday\u2019s encounter took place inside the zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such incidents continue to occur despite an agreement between the two sides to prevent them from sparking an international crisis, as happened in April 2001 when a Chinese jet fighter collided with a U.S. EP-3. That led to the death of the Chinese pilot and China\u2019s detention of the U.S. air crew for 10 days after their crippled plane landed at a PLA Navy air base on the island province of Hainan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An EP-3 surveillance plane. (Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While China has long chafed at U.S. surveillance operations targeting its military, the PLA itself has been conducting such missions further and further from its home ports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, China sailed a spy ship through the narrow Tsugaru Strait separating the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, while another was spotted last week within Australia\u2019s exclusive economic zone where allies Australia and U.S. were conducting major war games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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