China and the US have witnessed a rare confrontation in the hot South China Sea as the Chinese army fired missiles to warn off US forces.
BEIJING HAD COMPLAINED THAT US SENT ITS U-2 SPY PLANE INTO NO-FLY ZONE
According to South China Morning Post daily, China’s People’s Liberation Army launched two missiles including an “aircraft-carrier killer” which Beijing reportedly see as ‘a warning’ to the US forces in the South China Sea Wednesday morning.
Washington Wednesday slapped new restrictions on certain Chinese state-owned enterprises and executives for “malign activities” in the South China Sea.
China also lodged “stern representations” after a US spy plane was detected flying over a no-fly zone set up by the Chinese army in the Bohai Sea. Beijing complained Tuesday that the US sent its U-2 spy plane into the so-called “no-fly zone without permission” when the Chinese army was holding a live-fire naval drill in the Bohai Sea off its north coast.
A report quoting unnamed sources said that Chinese army launched one of its DF-26B missiles from the northwestern Qinghai province and then a DF-21D missile from Zhejiang province in the country’s east.