US details risky Chinese aircraft manoeuvres over past 2 years

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An official declined to say how many of those intercepts were ‘unsafe and unprofessional’.

Chinese military aircraft have carried out risky or reckless manoeuvres close to US aircraft nearly 200 times since 2021.

But despite the large number of risky intercepts, the official declined to say how many of those close calls were “unsafe and unprofessional”- a standard military term when interactions are actually dangerous. On Monday, Chinese fighter jets intercepted a Canadian military plane, which Ottawa said was dangerous and reckless.

 

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