A CNN crew got a close-up look at a Chinese fighter jet as it confronted a US reconnaissance plane over the highly-disputed waterway
A voice, saying it’s coming from a People’s Liberation Army airport, crackles over the radio of the US Navy P-8 Poseidon as a CNN crew, given rare access aboard the US flight, listens in.s “American aircraft. Chinese airspace is 12 nautical miles. Not approaching any more or you bear all responsibility,” it says. In a few minutes, a Chinese fighter jet armed with air-to-air missiles intercepts the US plane, nestling in just 500 feet off its port side.
Far to the southeast sits the Spratly Islands chain, just 186 miles from the Philippine island of Palawan. In 2016, in a case brought by the Philippines, an international tribunal in the Hague ruled that China’s claim to historic rights to the bulk of the sea had no legal basis. But Beijing has rejected the tribunal’s ruling and continued its military buildup, building bases in the Spratlys, which it calls the Nansha Islands.
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