A Chinese military jet has detonated flares near an Australian Navy helicopter which was operating in international waters, forcing the pilot to take evasive action to avoid an accident.

An Australian pilot was forced to take evasive action after a Chinese military jet detonated flares close to a Navy helicopter that was operating in international waters near South Korea.

The Defence Department has described the actions of the J-10 Chinese Air Force plane as “unsafe and unprofessional” following the incident which took place in the Yellow Sea over the weekend.

On Saturday a MH-60R Seahawk which had launched from HMAS Hobart was intercepted by the People’s Liberation Army-Air Force (PLA-AF) as it was taking part in a UN mission to enforce sanctions against North Korea.

  • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    6 months ago

    The Australian government needs to retaliate in a serious way.

    They just had talks between generals about this sort of dangerous behaviour and the Chinese immediately do this.

    This is a message from China that they don’t respect Australia. Fine.

    Australia should cut coal and iron exports to the bastards right before their next winter hits.

    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Lol. Australia is just as codependent on our iron and coal trade with China as china is. We’re not going to do anything to threaten that. Let’s be honest. Really though, should Australia be operating warships so close to China when they really don’t like it. I don’t imagine or expect the Australian navy/Air Force to be friendly to a Chinese warships if they were off the coast of Brisbane or Sydney.

      • mynachmadarch@kbin.social
        64·
        6 months ago

        Found the bot who can’t read. International waters near south Korea with an actual mission against north korea. That’s not “operating near China”. If that was the case, the world should be nothing but bloody war, just about every country has military at their border. That’s near another country.

        And the biggest reason this is a double dick move by China, the Seahawk was on a UN mission. Guess who’s part of UN. That’s right. China.

        • Skua@kbin.social
          21·
          6 months ago

          A UN mission that China has actively voted for repeatedly, no less. Every UNSC resolution against North Korea going back to 2006 has been unanimous.