Newsweek: U.S. Spy Plane Watches Chinese Troops Gathering for South China Sea Drills
Plane spotters monitoring the skies around China via open-source software said an American reconnaissance aircraft went on a lengthy intelligence-gathering mission off the Chinese coast on Tuesday.
Online flight trackers recorded the apparent movements of a U.S. Air Force plane that probed the South China Sea ahead of a series of intensive live-fire exercises involving the People's Liberation Army.
A Chinese state media pundit said the PLA drills were likely in preparation for a conflict with the United States over the island of Taiwan.
According to the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, a Peking University think tank tracking U.S. military movements, the RC-135W Rivet Joint craft operated off China's southern provinces of Guangdong and Hainan before passing the Paracel Islands—controlled by China but also claimed by Vietnam.
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