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The tale of a US spy plane over the South China Sea
While the US claimed China intercepted its reconnaissance aircraft ‘unprofessionally,’ it failed to mention the spy plane’s proximity to mainland China and People’s Liberation Army training exercises, reports PEOPLE’S DISPATCH
CLOSE CALL: The Chinese J-16 seen in a video shot from the US RC-135 spy plane
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026
The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
ON Wednesday May 31, China strongly rejected the US version of an incident involving planes from the two countries over the South China sea.
The previous day, the US Indo-Pacific Command had released a video and announced that a Chinese military jet had made an “unnecessarily aggressive manoeuvre” near a US military aircraft.
The incident, which supposedly took place on May 26, comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two nations.
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