
Chinese military orders US plane away from its airspace, flies fighter jet 500 feet from wing
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A U.S. Navy plane in the South China Sea was warned by the Chinese military to stay away and a Chinese fighter jet was scrambled to monitor it for
Shortly after, a Chinese fighter jet positioned itself about 500 feet from the left wing of the U.S. plane, which continued on its course, for an over an hour before peeling away. Andrew Mark Miller is a writer at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
U.S. military officials say that the encounters are becoming more frequent in the South China Sea as China attempts to position itself as the dominant force in the area and claims control over many of the largely uninhabited islands in the sea.
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