{China’s state-run media warned Washington on Monday that Beijing could treat its surveillance flights as an “act of hostility”, after accusations a Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a US military aircraft.}<\/p>\n
US Rear Admiral John Kirby said Friday the armed Chinese warplane came close to the American P-8 Poseidon surveillance aircraft on three occasions, at times less than 30 feet (nine metres) away, in what he called a “very dangerous” intercept.<\/p>\n
China’s defence ministry spokesman Yang Yujun called the allegations “totally groundless” in a statement cited by the official news agency Xinhua.<\/p>\n
The incident took place 220 kilometres (135 miles) off China’s Hainan island, over an area the US insists is international waters but Beijing regards as part of its territory.<\/p>\n
The incident has echoes of a major incident in April 2001, when a Chinese fighter jet collided with a US Navy EP-3 spy plane around 110 kilometres off Hainan.<\/p>\n
The Global Times — which is owned by the Communist Party’s mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, and often takes a nationalist tone — lashed out in an editorial at US surveillance “in the coastal waters and airspace of China”.<\/p>\n
AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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