China says Australian plane was a threat


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China has given its own official account of an air confrontation between one of its fighter aircraft and an Australian military surveillance plane in the South China Sea. China's Defence Ministry says its military identified Australian military aircraft and warned them to leave. Chinese defence ministry spokesman Tan Kefei said the Australian aircraft seriously threatened China's sovereignty and security and the countermeasures taken by the Chinese military were reasonable and lawful. Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles revealed on Sunday that a Chinese J-16 aircraft flew dangerously close to an RAAF P-8A Poseidon conducting routine surveillance in international airspace on May...