China is dismissing as "groundless" U.S. accusations that one of its fighter jets came too close to a U.S. Navy patrol plane off the Chinese coast on Tuesday.
A Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman, Yang Yujun, made the comment Saturday. In a statement cited by China's Xinhua news agency, Yang also said the Chinese pilot had maintained a safe distance from the U.S. aircraft and that the United States, and its massive and frequent close-in surveillance of China, endangered air and marine security.
The U.S. Defense Department Friday said the Chinese plane conducted a "dangerous intercept" of the Navy jet, a P-8 Poseidon plane, and that the Pentagon registered its concerns to the Chinese.
Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said the Chinese jet made several close passes.
"The Chinese jet also passed the nose of the P-8 at 90 degrees with its belly toward the P-8 Poseidon," Kirby told a news conference, " we believe to make a point of showing its weapons load. And, then they flew directly under and alongside the P-8, bringing their wingtips, as it said, to within 20 feet and then conducted a roll."
Kirby says the incident took place Tuesday in international waters, 200 kilometers east of Hainan Island as the U.S. jet was on a routine patrol. He said the encounter posed a risk to the safety and well-being of the air crew and was inconsistent with customary international law.
A Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman, Yang Yujun, made the comment Saturday. In a statement cited by China's Xinhua news agency, Yang also said the Chinese pilot had maintained a safe distance from the U.S. aircraft and that the United States, and its massive and frequent close-in surveillance of China, endangered air and marine security.
The U.S. Defense Department Friday said the Chinese plane conducted a "dangerous intercept" of the Navy jet, a P-8 Poseidon plane, and that the Pentagon registered its concerns to the Chinese.
Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said the Chinese jet made several close passes.
"The Chinese jet also passed the nose of the P-8 at 90 degrees with its belly toward the P-8 Poseidon," Kirby told a news conference, " we believe to make a point of showing its weapons load. And, then they flew directly under and alongside the P-8, bringing their wingtips, as it said, to within 20 feet and then conducted a roll."
Kirby says the incident took place Tuesday in international waters, 200 kilometers east of Hainan Island as the U.S. jet was on a routine patrol. He said the encounter posed a risk to the safety and well-being of the air crew and was inconsistent with customary international law.
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U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice, on a three-day visit to Beijing, told several senior Chinese officials that China must halt the "dangerous intercepts", senior Obama administration officials said.
However, General Fan Changlong, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, called on the United States to "reduce and ultimately cease naval and aerial reconnaissance activities near China", according to the official Xinhua news agency.
The row began in August when the United States complained that a Chinese military aircraft had launched a risky intercept of a U.S. Navy patrol plane in international air space. The Chinese pilot flew a few yards from the U.S. plane and performed acrobatic maneuvers around it, the Pentagon said.
China said the pilot had done nothing wrong and that U.S. surveillance patrols harm China's national security interests.
Despite the disagreement over the incident, Obama administration officials called Rice's dialogue with Chinese leaders on the issue "constructive" and added China took U.S. concerns seriously.
The two countries are working to adopt new confidence-building measures, they said, without elaborating on what the measures would entail...................http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/10/us-china-usa-military-idUSKBN0H418R20140910?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Wang Guanzhong will co-chair the talks with U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Christine E. Wormuth, Geng Yansheng said at a monthly press briefing.
The strategic planning departments of the two militaries will hold their first dialogue during the talks, Geng said.
The previous talks were staged in Beijing on September 9, 2013.
When asked about progress in establishing a mutual reporting mechanism on major military operations and a code of conduct on naval and air military security between the two sides, Geng said they "are making joint efforts to reach the goal."
The presidents of China and the United States agreed on establishing the mechanism and code of conduct during their meeting in California in June last year......................http://english.cntv.cn/2014/09/26/VIDE1411684203375423.shtml
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