May 22, 2016

"'The U.S. Navy plane EP-3 was then conducting reconnaissance close to China's Hainan Dao', Hong said at the briefing.

China has reacted with anger in the past to freedom of navigation operations by the us, including an overflight of fighter jets last month near disputed Scarborough Shoal last month of bombers last November, and the squadron of bombers that flew near Chinese facilities under construction at Cuarteron Reef in the Spratlys."

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