PLAAF Colonel Commandant Dai Xu (Image from Chinese media)
Business Insider: Senior Chinese military officer calls for attacks on US ships in the South China Sea
* A senior Chinese military officer urged the Chinese Navy to use force to counter US activities in the South China Sea.
* A People's Liberation Army Air Force senior colonel argued at a conference Saturday that the Chinese PLA Navy should ram US Navy warships that try to conduct freedom-of-navigation operations in "Chinese waters" in the South China Sea.
* Such an aggressive action would certainly constitute an escalation after a near-miss incident in September, when a PLAN destroyer nearly collided with a US warship in the South China Sea.
The South China Sea is a powder keg, and one senior Chinese military officer seems interested in lighting the fuse even further.
Dai Xu, a People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) senior colonel and president of the Institute of Marine Safety and Cooperation, suggested last weekend that the Chinese navy use force to counter US freedom-of-navigation operations in the South China Sea, Taiwan News reported Sunday. He spoke at a conference hosted by the nationalist, state-backed Chinese tabloid Global Times.
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