China Protests New Zealand Aerial Patrols Near Coastline

China complains of ‘harassment’ from New Zealand aerial patrols close to coastline

China has lodged a protest with New Zealand about the activities of a military aircraft near its coast, suggesting it had put commercial airlines at risk. During a regular press conference on Friday, foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said a P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft had “conducted continuous close-in reconnaissance and harassment in the airspace and waters of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea”. He said such actions undermined China’s security interests, heightened the risks of...

By Phoebe Zhang