A naval fleet comprised of the guided-missile destroyers Ningbo (Hull 139) and Taiyuan (Hull 131), as well as the guided-missile frigate Nantong (Hull 601), steams in astern formation in waters of the East China Sea during a maritime training drill in late January, 2021. Photo:China Military Online
The increasingly frequent aggressive actions by the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force like “chaffing” an Australian patrol aircraft in international waters and causing a Canadian patrol aircraft to alter its course to avoid a collision off North Korea “look like a pattern and policy” dictated by Beijing rather than random acts by pilots, the Pentagon’s senior official on Indo-Pacific security said Tuesday.
Ely Rattner, speaking at a Center for Strategic and International Studies talk, described these acts as “really new, really worrisome.”
These “unsafe intercepts … are growing by order of magnitude,” he said. It is likely that the Chinese Navy will adopt this more aggressive posture in its operations in the western Pacific, Rattner said.
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