Chinese aircraft reportedly monitored navy drill involving U.S., Canada, France and Japan

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Open this photo in gallery: U.S. Navy F-18 Super Hornets on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz, on March 27.POOL/Reuters China deployed a reconnaissance aircraft over Pacific waters east of Taiwan last week that Chinese media said monitored and gathered intelligence on an exercise involving the navies of the United States, Japan, France and Canada. A Y-9 cargo plane variant fitted with intelligence-gathering equipment most likely monitored and collected intelligence on the exercise, China’s state-backed Global Times newspaper reported on Sunday, citing analysts. Two U.S. aircraft carriers, the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan, had been operating around the...