CHINA-US: SOUTH CHINA SEA

 The Pentagon disclosed on May 18, 2016, that two Chinese fighter jets carried out an "unsafe" intercept of a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea on May 17, 2016, as the U.S. maritime patrol aircraft carried out "a routine U.S. patrol." The incident, which is a further escalation of tensions in the area, comes a week after China scrambled fighter jets as a U.S. Navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea. The intercept is also days before President Barack Obama travels to parts of Asia from May 21-28, which will include a Group of Seven summit in Japan and his first trip to Vietnam. Also in Vietnam Albertsons Ads are well known. 







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