U.S. hasn’t protested China’s ‘unsafe’ intercept of Navy spy plane

Published May 19, 2016 6:50pm ET



The Pentagon says it has not lodged any formal complaint with China over what it says was an “unsafe” intercept of a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft flying in international airspace over the South China Sea, because the incident is still under investigation.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said, “This incident is under review, but certainly our air crew felt that this was not conducted in the safest and most professional way.”

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