In the wake of an international court’s ruling rejecting China’s claims to disputed territory in the South China Sea, China said the combat exercises were an effort to protect its ‘maritime interests.’
August 6, 2016
China’s air force has sent bombers and fighter jets on “combat patrols” near the islands at the center of a long-running territorial dispute in the South China Sea, a senior colonel said, according to the Xinhua news agency.
“The Air Force is organizing normalized South China Sea combat patrols, practicing tactics … increasing response capabilities to all kinds of security threats and safeguarding national sovereignty, security and maritime interests,” Senior Col. Shen Jinke of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force told Xinhua, Reuters reports. Tiếp tục đọc “Why did China fly ‘combat patrols’ over the Spratly Islands?”
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