China is engaged in a systematic program of military intimidation and coercion involving dangerous jet intercepts of U.S. and allied aircraft that could trigger a U.S.-China conflict, the Pentagon's senior policymaker for Asia said Tuesday.
China is engaged in a systematic program of military intimidation and coercion involving dangerous jet intercepts of U.S. and allied aircraft that could trigger a U.S.-China conflict, the Pentagon’s senior policymaker for Asia said Tuesday.
When added to an additional number of dangerous intercepts involving allied aircraft, the total number of risky incidents is nearly 300, Mr. Ratner said. “Historically, certainly all nations look at what’s going on in the geopolitical space, in the military space, and I would expect there to be lessons learned,” Adm. Aquilino said when asked if China could use the current period to attack Taiwan.
Adm. Aquilino said no U.S. equipment or forces have been moved from the Pacific region to support U.S. military missions aiding Ukraine and Israel. Such a mid-air collision between a Chinese jet and U.S. EP-3 reconnaissance plane in 2001 set off an international crisis. Mr. Ratner said that in January an armed PLA jet fighter flew within 30 feet of a U.S. surveillance aircraft over the South China Sea. That incident followed another dangerous PLA intercept weeks before.
China also used coast guard vessels aiming water hoses in an attempt to block Philippines vessels from resupplying a ground ship used as a base at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea’s Spratlys islands.
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