The Pentagon has accused the rising Asian superpower of a campaign of 'coercion' against American aircraft.
"Since the fall of 2021, we have seen more than 180 such incidents," Ely Ratner, the Assistant Secretary of Defence for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, said.
The images, which date back to January 2022, show Chinese fighter jets getting dangerously close to US military jets in international airspace in an attempt to "intimidate" them, the Pentagon said in a statement about the incidents."It's a centralised and concerted campaign to perform these risky behaviours in order to coerce a change in lawful US operational activity," Ratner added.
The photos and videos also show the Chinese jets releasing objects and projectiles, including flares. US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and other Pentagon officials "have previously raised their concerns about this behaviour in a range of settings, including during the Secretary's engagements in 2021 and 2022 with General Wei Fenghe, then-Minister of National Defence of the People's Republic of China , as well as the Secretary's public remarks at the Shangri-La Dialogue in 2022 and 2023," the Pentagon said.
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