WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- The Chinese Navy issued warnings to a U.S. surveillance plane in airspace around disputed South China Sea islands Thursday.
The plane, a P-8A Poseidon, was traveling over the Spratly Islands, a group which includes man-made islands built by China to enhance its territorial claim to most of the South China Sea, when warning were delivered eight times by radio, in English, to the pilot.