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WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
- US spy plane enters no-fly zone during Chinese live-fire naval drill
- China’s DefenseMinistry said the U-2incident took place as “an act of naked provocation” in the northern military region where live fire drills were taking place, “seriously interfering in normal exercise activities.”
LOCATION
- “It came near an ongoing PLA exercise in waters off Hainan Island’s southeast coast,” Chinese state media reported
- The smallest and southernmost province of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea.
DETAILS
- A source close to the Chinese military said the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft came from a military base in South Korea, and flew over the Bohai Gulf where the Chinese aircraft carrier the Shandong was taking part in the exercise.
PREVIOUS INCIDENT
- In late July, an US anti-submarine warplane had come within 100 km from Shanghai in eastern China in the backdrop of the tit-for-tat closure of consulates carried out the week before.
AN INCIDENT FROM PAST
- In April 2001, an intercept of a U.S. spy plane by a Chinese fighter jet resulted in a collision that killed the Chinese pilot and forced the American plane to make an emergency landing at a base on the southern Chinese island of Hainan.
TRUMP’S PROVOCATION
CHINA’S REACTION THUS FAR
- PLA fires ‘aircraft-carrier killer’ missile into South China Sea amid US spy plane intrusions
- One of the missiles, a DF-26B, was launched from the north-western province of Qinghai, while the other, a
- DF-21D, (aircraft-carrier killer missile) lifted off from Zhejiang province in the east.
- Both were fired into an area between Hainan province and the Paracel Islands, the Post quoted Chinese military sources as saying.
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