This is the best summary I could come up with:
OTTAWA, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The interception of a Canadian military plane by Chinese fighter jets over international waters on Monday was unacceptable, dangerous and reckless, said Defence Minister Bill Blair.
He spoke after Canada’s Global News said a Chinese jet had come within five meters (16 feet) of a Canadian surveillance plane taking part in an U.N. operation to enforce sanctions against North Korea.
Blair said that while the Chinese air force regularly interacted with planes on U.N. missions, the incident on Monday had put the Canadian aircraft at significant risk.
In June 2022, Canada’s military accused Chinese warplanes of harassing its patrol aircraft as they monitored North Korea sanction evasions, sometimes forcing Canadian planes to divert from their flight paths.
In May, the Pentagon said a Chinese fighter jet carried out an “unnecessarily aggressive” maneuver near a U.S. military plane over the South China Sea in international airspace.
The encounter followed what Washington calls a recent trend of increasingly dangerous behavior by Chinese military aircraft.
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If you want to see what legions of paid trolls and bots can do, go to the global news video about this on YouTube and look at the comments. Absolutely packed with the same BS talking point.
It’s quite audacious for China to intercept us during our flyby mission near the airspace of one of their allies. If the situation were reversed, and the Chinese were conducting a flyby along the coast of Alaska, we would unquestionably support their right to do so and refrain from any intervention.
You’re misrepresenting what happened and the documented differences in how China behaves vs other countries.
It’s hard to overstate how dangerous flying within 5 meters of another jet is.
Russia frequently tests US readiness by flying towards North American airspace yet you don’t hear about F-22 pilots colliding with other planes. But there’s a long history of Chinese pilots absolutely fucking it up, resulting in death and damage.
Canada is flying missions for the UN which Chia is a part of. China should not be attempting to interfere with these missions as the purpose is to make sure the DPRK are in fact honoring their agreements.
Israel just bombed a hospital and killed 500 people, shit is about to change big time.
Except all current open source evidance points to it being hammas.
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How dare China go intercept us while we are doing a fly by right on the edge of one of their allies air space. If the Chinese were doing a fly by on the coast of Alaska we would totally defend their right to do so and not take any action!
It was literally part of a UN operation.
It’s a Security Council resolution, very different than a broader UN operation.
The resolution itself does not provide for military force to be used for enforcement. Canada was acting against this.
it was still in international waters!
That in no way changes my original point. Do a role reversal. If China was patrolling in international waters on the edge of Alaska, how do you think Canada or the US would respond exactly?
your original point is still kind of stupid so no point in changing that. Russia is also invading our airspace but the west still don’t act in such a stupid or dangerous way.
it’s always those fucking communist countries that have to compensate for something with their behavior…
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/norad-russian-warplane-us-airspace-second-time-week/
Russia is flying near Alaska and Canada all the time and nothing comes from it. This is different because of how close the pilots were.
You realise that this shit happens all the time? The Russians send bombers over northern Europe all the time and head towards UK airspace. They get intercepted by fighters, have a wave and turn around again.
what 😂
I’m confused…
You mean if UN flew close to US? It’s disingenuous to equate the UN with US.
The enforcement was through monitoring. If someone breaks the sanction, then this aircraft would provide the evidence. It’s not military action like you suggest.
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Would you like to refresh my memory on which countries have permanent veto power on the Security Council?
Would you also like to remind me which countries on the Security Council voted to impose sanctions on North Korea?
I’ll wait.
China did, but as stated the resolution does not grant the use of military enforcement.
Does not grant the use of military force. That doesn’t mean that surveillance planes are banned, ffs.
You’re really going out of your way to defend what is meaningless and petty nationalist dickwaving for domestic Chinese media.
Nah they’re just looking for reasons to shit on Canada because you know… Trudeau bad.
Edit: I have no basis for the above comment. It was reactionary and silly. I shall leave it up in shame.
Surveillance flights are not military enforcement.
From what I read (and saw on video), the issue is that the Chinese jet got within 10 meters of the plane being intercepted… Which is reckless as hell.
Fuck China. Next *time they buzz a plane or ship we should start blowing folks up. What are they going to do?
How about no, and we just treat this like it is - nationalist dickwaving that means nothing, like Greece and Turkey buzzing each other.
Oh no, you are wrong about that, dude. Buzzing each other and actually copying all other domestic and international acts of each other has earned Mitsotakis and Erdoğan very firm seats. Just cry “enemy at the gates” when the elections are closing in, you can be a god among men.
