{"id":51579,"date":"2022-12-31T03:49:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/30\/chinese-navy-jet-us-air-force-indo-pacific-south-china-sea"},"modified":"2022-12-31T03:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:49:16","slug":"chinese-navy-jet-flies-within-10ft-of-us-air-force-plane-over-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51579","title":{"rendered":"Chinese navy jet flies within 10ft of US air force plane over South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US aircraft forced to take evasive maneuvers during latest incident over contested shipping, fishing and gas field-rich region<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The close encounter followed what the US called a recent trend of increasingly dangerous behavior by Chinese military aircraft.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/30\/chinese-navy-jet-us-air-force-indo-pacific-south-china-sea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US aircraft forced to take evasive maneuvers during latest incident over contested shipping, fishing and gas field-rich regionA Chinese military plane came within 10ft (three meters) of a US air force aircraft over the contested South China Sea last we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,535,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-south-china-sea","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51580,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579\/revisions\/51580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}