CHINA-US: MILITARY
The Pentagon disclosed on August 22, 2014, that a Chinese fighter jet this week flew within 30 feet of a US Navy surveillance and reconnaissance P-8 Poseidon aircraft in international airspace just off the Chinese coast. Pentagon Press Secretary, Rear Admiral John Kirby, described the encounter as “very very close, very dangerous.” The Pentagon filed a diplomatic complaint with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) the same morning. |