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Australia has accused the pilot of a Chinese fighter jet of carrying out a dangerous manoeuvre near one of its aircraft over the South China Sea.
It says the Chinese aircraft released flares and cut in front of the Australian surveillance plane.
The Chinese jet then released "chaff" - an anti-radar device which includes small pieces of aluminium which entered the Australian plane's engine.
Beijing claims most of the region as its own territory.
The Royal Australian Air Force P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was intercepted on 26 May by a Chinese J-16 fighter aircraft, during what was a routine maritime surveillance activity, Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese said.
"The intercept resulted in a dangerous manoeuvre which did pose a safety threat to the P-8 aircraft and its crew," he said.
Defence Minister Richard Marles said the Chinese jet flew very close in front of the RAAF aircraft and released a "bundle of chaff" containing the small pieces of aluminium that were ingested into the Australian aircraft's engine.
"Quite obviously this is very dangerous," Mr Marles told ABC television.
In a statement, Australia's defence ministry said it had "for decades undertaken maritime surveillance activities in the region" and "does so in accordance with international law, exercising the right to freedom of navigation and overflight in international waters and airspace".
Beijing has not commented on the incident. China has been building up military infrastructure there in recent years.
But the US, neighbouring countries and others, including Australia, dispute its claim.
In February, Australia accused a Chinese navy ship of shining a military grade laser towards one of its warplanes over the Arafura Sea off northern Australia.
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China’s bullying tactics over the definition of international waters is bad enough, but this is really not ok. It’s one thing to intercept a plan. It’s a whole other thing to pull this dangerous stunt.
The CCP just took a page out of Putin's playbook and applied it to their own use. Putin been doing the same in the Atlantic for years longer than China.
Yep, that's a euphemism of an intentional provocation and spying activity carried out by both sides of the issue - a dangerous game and everyone needs to be prepared for the consequences in the event the result becomes even more serious.
My comment is merely about "routine maritime surveillance activity" generally, applicable to ALL COUNTRIES and is not to be considered support for or defence of the activity by ANY SPECIFIC COUNTRY.
There are accepted international practices in the interception of "routine maritime surveillance activity". The CCP and the PLAAF and the Russian Air Force obviously take theirs to deliberately unsafe intimidating extremes.
Unfortunately, "accepted international practices" are not universally "accepted". Sailing warships through the Taiwan Straits is not universally accepted, and in fact by some are considered a provocation whether or not it is considered by others an "accepted international practice".
Exactly, much older than the UN is China's ability to trace China traces its interaction with the South China Sea back to the Western Han Dynasty. Thus, Beijing can properly claim about 80% of the South China Sea.
No, no, you can't say that. It doesn't fit the American hegemonic agenda and its attempts to contain China to prevent it from the inevitable surpassing of America as the world's "exceptional" number one nation.
Exactly, Americana fails to understand the Chinese Communist Party’s dialectic which correctly inverts the Daoist taiji view. Mao properly saw the two opposing forces, constantly in conflict with each-other, and that through his dialectic “One becomes two, two becomes four.” In place of harmony, struggle.
Five years ago, China entered a new era, and is historically destined to take center stage in the world. The new Long March is the manifestation. China’s destiny is in synch with this century’s recognition of the effectiveness of authoritarian government.
If that is the rule for claiming SCS then China and the Western Han Dynasty are trumped by Vietnam which has one of the oldest and most continuous histories of any nation. The area has been inhabited by some of the world's earliest societies dating back to 2879 BC. So their interaction with the SCS seems to predate Chinas. They are, of course, one of the countries disputing China's claims.
I know that the adage "Possession is 9/10ths of the law" is not good law, but who's going to remove China from those islands? If the argument is that Vietnam is entitled to take them over because it had sovereignty before China claimed sovereignty, why aren't the Native Americans entitled to take over America?
Very good point Kavika. Then there is also The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague which rejected China’s use of a nibe-dash line to claim sovereignty over large parts of the South China Sea.
Or 1st Nations to take over Canada for that matter?
Which is why that logic is ineffective.
My comment was in reference to Drinker's comment about the Chinese having been associated with the SCS since the Han Dynasty, if that were the criteria then Vietnam would have a much better case than China since they have been associated with the SCS for 2,000 more years than China.
This has nothing to do with the US or NA's, but if you want to make that comparison then you should also include Canada and the First Nations and Israel and the Palestinians.
As a country that oppresses China's illegal stance the Vietnamese won't go away quietly nor should they or any of the other countries that oppose China. The Vietnamese and the Chinese have a long (thousands of years) and fraught history. Including wars the latest being 1979.
As a side note, the Vietnamese being a communist country like China will not buy weapons from China because of their dislike and mistrust of the Chinese. For decades they purchased their weapons from Russia and since the Russians invaded Ukraine (Crimea) in 2014 they have started buying from the US and Israel. Strange bedfellows since Israel has not enforced sanctions against Russia.
Without all the history what China has done is illegal in the eyes of the world, simple as that.
You certainly have all the answers, so if so, what do you predict is going to happen?
I don't have all the answers, the points I made in that comment are facts as they exist.
IMO, China will continue to widen its sphere of influence in Asia and will also continue to buy the support of nations to drop their recognization of Taiwan. It will use its size/money to establish new military bases outside of China as they are now doing in Cambodia, the Solomon Islands and other Island nations in the Pacific.
I would suspect that they are watching very carefully the results of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine as to the world response and how the Russian military equipment is performing with an eye to Taiwan.
At some point in the future, there will be a confrontation between China and the US.
Five or so years ago, China established a naval base in Djibouti and come close to getting on in Khalifa, UAE. The ongoing China-US power competition isn’t confined to the Pacific region, but will grow world-wide until something stops it.
I'd venture to say that all of us will just be memories before China even gets CLOSE to having even 1/10th the military bases that the USA has all around the world, if in fact that's their intention. I think China will achieve its goals through other methods than being the world's policeman. But I sure as hell had a laugh to see the amount of Australian and American panic when China signed an agreement with the Solomon Islands.
Yes, the US military clearly leads in the number of bases overseas. The PRC military clearly leads in the ownership or control of business or corporations.
Perhaps world banker is the Chinese model.
International instability is hilarious.
Citizens of the Solomons didn't think it was funny at all. They have rioted against the Chinese being there. Sadly the Chinese were able to buy off (corruption) the politicians of the Solomons. Taiwan warned the Solomons about falling into the Chinese debt trap. The Solomons dropped their recognition of Taiwan in favor of China and entered the debt trap which now is costing them their country. The Belt and Road program of the Chinese is designed to do just that, and in some cases, it has worked quite well.
Somewhat hilarious that you mention America's hegemonic agenda while totally ignoring the CCP's which is obviously blatantly much greater than that of the US.
It will be interesting to see which method turns out to be more effective.
Might be a tie with the stolen Intellectual Property by China.
Keep up the good work, Drinker, your slanders could be instrumental in helping keep your nation in second place rather than even worse. Of course America has NEVER spied on China.....
In all fairness, all nations spy on one another. The only difference is the matter of degree and purpose.
Maybe America should spy on China to find out how to eradicate abject poverty and homelessness.
That's very simple.
You simply need a massive amount of money. So you find the richest country in the world, convince them to give you favorable trade deals, and then screw them over.
Surely you're not saying that America's governments are so ignorant that they don't know how to put together a trade deal for mutual benefit?
I will say that.
China certainly does not do trade deals for mutual benefit.
And your respected and unbiased source for that statement is......?
Well, not everybody is pro China.
I can't disagree with you there. I'm sure there isn't a major country in the world that all other nations consider "pro". Some have already voiced their opinion in that regard about the host of the "Summit of Most of the Americas".
I'm saying that under certain administrations (like the present one), America's government is naive.
I'm also saying the Chinese government has a long history of unethical and dishonest behavior as a matter of policy.
I think unethical and dishonest behaviour is something that any nation might have practised or maybe even still does, and it's a matter of degree in each case. Do you feel that there is any country that is so clean that every politician in it will go to heaven and what every and any country does is always beyond reproach? LOL Where America and China rate in that respect is something requiring proof.
A line is spoken by Heath Ledger in the movie A Knight's Tale. "My father told me that I must take the bad with the good." I think that applies to nations as well.
Agree, the world has taken China along with the good in the world.
My God, your comments indicate such fear of China. You know of course that hatred is begotten by fear and your comments indicate such hatred of China that it makes me curious about where all that fear came from. .
I dunno, Buzz. Canada manages to trade with the world's largest economy on a very honest basis. They don't artificially manipulate currency to make their goods more cost-competitive, they don't completely disregard the intellectual property rights of foreign entities, and they don't conduct espionage through the products they sell.
Come to think of it... the Japanese manage to trade fairly, as well. As do the English. And the EU. Hmmm.......
Not sure what you saw that indicates that? I have a lot of respect for what China achieved over the last 70 years. I also respect the growing military power that China is combining with its economic, technological, and diplomatic power to secure its territory and regional preeminence, and pursue international cooperation at the US's expense.
I think that China will continue intimidation in the region and will use growing military to signal to Southeast Asian countries that China has effective control over the area.
Slander? Are you going to try to deny that China is very practiced at stealing intellectual property?
APT 41 has great hacking tools and the skills necessary to steal trillions in IP from multinational companies in the manufacturing, energy and pharmaceutical areas. That doesn't count the diagrams of fighter jets, helicopters, and missiles.
The CCP even has all my personal data from the 2015 hack of the Office of Personnel Management.
You haven't convinced me. There are no angels in this world. And for those who believe Jesus was, that was thousands of years ago.
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Show me a communist led government that does not have a history of unethical and dishonest behavior. The CCP is no different.
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One can only imagine the unhinged fulminations if China's navy sailed between Cuba and Florida.
If they sail in clearly established international waters, the US has to abide by it.
LOL. You mean how JFK and his government freaked out when Russia was planting missiles on Cuba? What International Treaty did Russia breach with what it was doing?
Was it the same one that the US violated when it crossed the 38th parallel causing the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army to cross the the Yalu River?
Yes, let's pivot to blaming America for something that's never happened to protect China from it's reckless provocations.
Predictable.
It never happened?
I apologize if my sarcasm was too subtle.
Haven’t the Chinese Navy made regular Ports of Call To Havana and sailed less than fifty miles of the coast of Alaska?
One that I know of in 2015, it composed of "three naval ships of the Chinese naval Escort Task Group 152, after a friendly visit to the United States' Naval Station Mayport, conducted a joint military exercise with U.S. naval ships in the southeastern Atlantic area for the first time on Saturday. Chinese navy's missile destroyer Ji'nan, missile frigate Yiyang and supply vessel Qiandaohu attended the exercise with U.S.' Burke Class Destroyer Mason and Stock, CVL-26 Monterey. The exercise was divided into three phases as navy ships from both countries went through courses of flag signals, maneuvering in formation and joint search and rescue. According to the plan, after the joint exercise, the Chinese naval Escort Task Group 152 will head for Havana, Cuba, for a friendship visit as the next stop of its global visit."
I don't think you'll see something like that happen again.
China is still a signatory to UNCLOS even though they only abide by it when it suits them as regards freedom of navigation in international waters, which includes the Taiwan Straits and other areas.
Chinese warplanes also buzzed Canadian recon planes enforcing UN Sanctions in North Korea as well.
Dangerous game they are playing
That they did and I seeded an article about it,