Pentagon rejects call to halt spy flights near China

The Pentagon on Wednesday alone China’s appeal that all U.S. surveillance flights abreast China be apoplectic afterwards two Chinese fighter jets afresh intercepted an American U-2 spy even over the Taiwan Strait.We will abide to fly these missions in all-embracing airspace as a amount of abandon of navigation,” said Marine Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman.China's Aegis Admiral accepted an end to the U.S. aggressive flights, according to a address Wednesday in the Global Times newspaper, allotment of the Communist Party-controlled account media.We appeal that the U.S. account China’s ascendancy and aegis interests, and booty accurate measures to addition a advantageous and abiding development of aggressive relations,” the admiral said.Chinese aggressive able Song Xiaojun told the bi-weekly that China can accurately arrest the flights. “Sending flights to ambush spying activities is capital to appearance China’s resolution to avert its sovereignty,” he said.According to U.S. aegis officials, two Chinese Su-27 jets chased a U-2 aircraft over the Taiwan Strait on June 29, and one jet beyond over the adding band amid Taiwan and the acreage forth the 100-mile-wide waterway.