{"id":248445,"date":"2016-06-07T20:21:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T20:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chinese-jet-intercepts-us-plane-in-unsafe-manner-officials\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T20:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T20:21:52","slug":"chinese-jet-intercepts-us-plane-in-unsafe-manner-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chinese-jet-intercepts-us-plane-in-unsafe-manner-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese jet intercepts US plane in unsafe manner: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"80.828389830508\">\n<p><strong>A Chinese J-10 fighter jet has intercepted a US plane flying over the East China Sea in an &#8220;unsafe manner,&#8221; US officials say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft was flying above the sea Tuesday, when it was approached by the jet with a &#8220;high rate of speed as it closed in&#8221; up to 100 feet (30 meter), unnamed military officials told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The US pilot\u2019s reaction or how long the confrontation took place remained unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Another \u201cunsafe\u201d intercept was reported in mid-May, when two Chinese J-11 tactical aircraft confronted a United States EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s intercept was reported as the annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue was closing in Beijing, with Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew in the Chinese capital.<\/p>\n<p>China has called on the US to stop close reconnaissance activities but tensions appear to be escalating between the two powers.<\/p>\n<p>The US has been accused&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/06\/07\/469417\/china-us-jet-intercept-east-china-sea-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese J-10 fighter jet has intercepted a US plane flying over the East China Sea in an &#8220;unsafe manner,&#8221; US officials say. The US Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft was flying above the sea Tuesday, when it was approached by the jet with a &#8220;high rate of speed as it closed in&#8221; up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}