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Friday, September 19, 2014

China to continue intercepting US jets that come too close

J-11 Flanker-BChina’s navy commander has vowed to continue intercepting United States military surveillance planes that come close to its coast, while saying he wants to avoid a repeat of a collision that downed two jets 13 years ago, killing a Chinese pilot.

“It’s become routine for the US to conduct close-in surveillance of China and I don’t see the end of these activities.

The US won’t be the US if it stops doing it,” People’s Liberation Army navy chief Admiral Wu Shengli told top US navy officials at an global forum in Newport, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, said a report in the state-owned Global Times newspaper yesterday. “But China’s countermeasures won’t end either.”

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