US aircraft forced to take evasive maneuvers during latest incident over contested shipping, fishing and gas field-rich region
A Chinese military plane came within 10ft (three meters) of a US air force aircraft over the contested South China Sea last week and forced it to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision in international airspace, the US military said.
The close encounter followed what the US called a recent trend of increasingly dangerous behavior by Chinese military aircraft.
