#shorts On 6/5/2023, NSA Spokesman John Kirby said, “these are intercepts. Now, look, air and maritime intercepts happen all the time. Heck, we do it. The difference is, when we do it, when we feel like we need to do it, it’s done professionally, and it’s done inside the — the inter- — international law, and it’s done in accordance with the rules of the road. These two that you saw recently — and there’s — they happen — they have happened with more frequency than we’d like. Not all of them are unsafe and unprofessional, but these two were.

You saw on the air intercept that they forced our — our aircraft — an RC-135 — to basically go through their jet wash. That — that — you saw the bump in the cockpit. That shows you how close that Chinese fighter was to our jet. And in the — in the maritime intercept in the Taiwan Strait, it’s 150, 140, 150 yards. Speaking as an old sailor myself, I’ll tell you, that’s pretty close when you’re — when you’re in open waters like that.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/EZK-XCJln4g
NSA Spokesman John Kirby: Chinese Intercepts “Have Happened With More Frequency Than We’d Like”