By Sam Roggeveen*
The Chinese air force’s dangerous intercept of a Royal Australian Navy helicopter in the Yellow Sea – what the Defence Department statement calls an “unprofessional interaction”, which involved firing flares near the chopper – is the latest in a series of actions by China’s military. It includes the lasing of a RAN ship, the firing of chaff that was ingested into the engine of a RAAF aircraft, and the pulsing of a sonar near an Australian ship when its divers were in the water. (The Lowy Institute. The Interpreter.)
