China Tells U.S. To Reduce Or Halt 'close Surveillance' Patrols

China on Thursday urged the United States to cut back on, or even stop, its close surveillance of the Asian giant using patrol aircraft, if it seriously seeks to repair damaged bilateral ties. Ties between the world's two largest economies have been strained by competing territorial claims between China and its neighbors, some of them U.S. allies, in the South China and East China seas. The two countries have exchanged barbs over a jet intercept of a U.S. navy patrol plane by a Chinese aircraft last week, with the United States saying the Chinese jet came within 33 ft of its plane over the sea. http://bit.ly/1AXIeyN http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ