The South China Sea has become a growing source of tension between China and the US (AFP Photo/Ted Aljibe)
Two
Chinese fighters have conducted an "unsafe" intercept of a US spy plane
in international air space over the South China Sea, the Pentagon said,
as tensions mount in the strategically vital waters. Tensions
between China and the United States are high in the disputed waterway,
an important shipping route thought to be home to vast energy deposits,
and which Beijing claims almost in its entirety. "The
Department of Defense (DoD) is reviewing a May 17 intercept of a US
maritime patrol reconnaissance aircraft by two tactical aircraft from
the People's Republic of China (PRC)," Pentagon spokesman Major Jamie
Davis said in a statement Wednesday.
