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The encounters in the past two years between American planes in the East and South China Seas and fighter jets belonging to China’s People’s Liberation Army have been described by a Pentagon official as a “centralized and concerted campaign” by China “ to coerce a change in lawful US operational activity” through “risky behaviors.”
The senior Pentagon official warned that the dangerous Chinese intercepts “put lives at risk – the lives of our service members, the lives of our allies and partners service members, and even the lives of PLA operators.” In one video, a May 25 encounter, a PLA fighter jet is seen sweeping across the front of a US plane and causing the American plane to shake as it flies through the PLA jet’s wake turbulence.
Ratner also expressed concern that the “disturbing” behavior continues to occur “at a time when the [People’s Republic of China” has declined our invitations to open lines of military to military communication at the senior most levels.” in February off the South Carolina coast, after the craft had flown across the entire continental US, including over sensitive US military installations. Navy Adm. John C.
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