Video shows a fighter jet passing in front of the US plane's nose and the cockpit of the RC-135 shaking in the turbulence.
abc.net.au/news/chinese-jet-carried-out-aggressive-manoeuvre-near-us-military/102413778A Chinese fighter jet carried out an "unnecessarily aggressive" manoeuvre near a US military plane over the South China Sea, the United States has said.The encounter followed what the United States has called a recent trend of increasingly dangerous behaviour by Chinese military aircraft
In a statement, the United States' military command responsible for the Indo-Pacific said the Chinese J-16 aircraft carried out the manoeuvre last week in international airspace, and forced the US RC-135 plane to fly through its wake turbulence. The Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In the past, China has said that the United States sending ships and aircraft into the South China Sea is not good for peace.
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