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  • Come and have a look, China says as carrier skirts Japan | Reuters
    http://www.reuters.com/article/china-defence-carrier-idUSL4N1EO149

    The Soviet-built Liaoning, accompanied by several warships, this week travelled through the passage between the Japanese islands of Miyako and Okinawa and into the Pacific for what China has described as a routine exercise.
    […]
    Asked about the Liaoning’s encounters with Japanese ships and aircraft, Chinese defence ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said it was natural people wanted to look at something attractive.

    There is an expression in China - the love for beauty is common to all men,” Yang told a monthly news briefing.

    Our Liaoning is both mighty and pretty. If people are interested in it, they can look at it from afar, or peep at it. As long as they don’t break relevant laws and rules, or hinder navigational safety and freedom, we don’t care,” he said.
    […]
    However, Yang was less amused about pictures of China’s still-under-construction second aircraft carrier that surfaced on the internet this week, including on Chinese websites.

    I think that foreign reporters reporting in China must respect relevant laws and regulations,” he said when asked about the pictures, apparently implying that he believed it was a foreign reporter who took them. He did not elaborate.

  • Un chasseur chinois frôle un avion militaire américain
    http://www.lapresse.ca/international/asie-oceanie/201408/22/01-4793845-un-chasseur-chinois-frole-un-avion-militaire-americain.php

    Comme d’habitude on ne connaîtra qu’une seule version,

    ...l’avion américain, un P8-Poseidon de surveillance maritime (...) effectuait une mission de routine, a déclaré le contre-amiral John Kirby, porte-parole du Pentagone.

    • China urges U.S. to stop close-in surveillance - Xinhua | English.news.cn
      http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-08/23/c_133578974.htm

      BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) — Chinese Defense Ministry here on Saturday urged the U.S. side to stop close-in surveillance of China, and create a sound atmosphere for bilateral military ties.

      The ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said in a statement that one U.S. anti-submarine plane and one patrol aircraft flew to an airspace about 220 kilometers east of China’s Hainan Island to conduct close-in surveillance Tuesday morning, and then a Chinese fighter jet took off to make regular identification and verification.

      Commenting on relevant criticism made by the U.S. side, Yang said that was “totally groundless,” as the Chinese pilot, with professional operation, kept the jet within a safe distance from the U.S. aircraft.

      It was U.S. massive and frequent close-in surveillance of China that endanger the two sides’ air and marine security, and is the root of accidents, he said.

      China urged the U.S. side to abide by international law and international practice, respect concerns of the coastal countries, and properly deal with the differences between the two sides on air and marine security issues, he said.

      Yang said that the U.S. side should follow the principle of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, take concrete actions, reduce and finally stop close-in surveillance of China, so as to create a sound atmosphere for bilateral military ties.