The state-owned CCTV had as the caption for its programme 'Focus' on September 5, "US military aircraft "transformed" into the South China Sea, intends to escalate, provoking and causing trouble?" The programme's main content said: On September 3, the South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness Program platform announced that an aircraft with the code number 07675C entered the South China Sea through the airspace of the Bashi Channel at 8 o'clock in the morning, and then the signal disappeared at 15:00 in the afternoon. After a brief appearance, it disappears again. Recently, some Japanese media reported that on September 1, the Taiwanese side stated in a private report on the PLA’s military strength that the PLA’s South China Sea Fleet crossed the Second Island Chain at the beginning of this year and entered the region including Hawaii for the first time and was nearby.
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