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Title:
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Playing Chicken in the South China Sea
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Author:
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Editorial Board
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Source:
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The New York Times
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Date:
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May 20, 2016
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Description:
- By the Pentagon’s account, two Chinese fighter jets performed an “unsafe” maneuver this week by flying within 50 feet of an American surveillance plane over the South China Sea. That’s not much more than a hairbreadth, aeronautically speaking, and a collision could have been catastrophic — to the crews and to the already fragile diplomatic relations between China and its regional neighbors and the United States.
