Joel Gehrke is foreign affairs reporter for the Washington Examiner, with an emphasis on U.S. competition with China and Russia, Middle East policy following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the crisis in Venezuela. Previously, he covered domestic politics for National Review Online.
A Chinese fighter pilot flew"within 10 feet” of a nuclear-capable U.S. B-52 bomber flying over the South China Sea, where a territorial dispute between China and a key U.S. ally threatens to flare into a crisis.
Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping’s regime has asserted sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, the maritime corridor between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. Philippine officials regard that as a “ridiculous assertion to suit its expansionist ends,” as Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro put it this week.
“Although we do maintain working level communications on a pretty routine basis, we've seen, unfortunately, the PRC largely denying, canceling, or ignoring most of our requests for everything from routine annual dialogues to senior leader engagements,” the Pentagon’s Michael Chase, a deputy assistant secretary of defense, said Monday.
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