US surveillance aircraft breaches into China’s airspace on consecutive days.
China’s military is carrying out drills in three different seas; Foreign Ministry lodged a formal protest.
The US military airplane’s incursion into Chinese airspace during live-fire military drill was “blatant provocation” and could prompt “confusions and mishaps”, China has said even as a second US surveillance airplane is said to have flown over the South China Sea on Wednesday.
Second US surveillance aircraft flies over the South China Sea:
A day after a US U-2 high-elevation surveillance airplane flew into Chinese air space during live-fire drills by the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) northern theatre order, a US RC-135S observation airplane on Wednesday flew close to a separate & active PLA drill in the South China Sea. The US airplane crossed the Bashi Channel from the east, travelled southwest into the South China Sea, and returned on a similar course, the Beijing-based research organization, South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI), said on Wednesday.
China’s foreign and defense ministries lash out at the US:
China’s foreign and defense ministries have lashed out at the US for sending spy planes into terrain airspace during military exercises; A formal protest has been launched by the foreign ministry. Wu Qian, a guard service representative, said the trespass seriously influenced China’s typical military activities and preparing exercises. It abused the principles of conduct for air and maritime wellbeing among China and the US.
The tension between China and the US heightens:
Chinese state media detailed that the PLA has shot down in any event five U-2 airplanes in the past as they intruded into terrain airspace. The Chinese PLA is right now leading separate military activities in three separate seas, in itself an uncommon instance of synchronous drills. The most recent round of military strain adds to the weakening respective ties between the two nations with Beijing and Washington as of now at loggerheads over related South China Sea dispute, the Hong Kong security bill, the state of minorities in Xinjiang, and the source of the coronavirus.
