A U.S. Navy aircraft appeared to fly a circle around Taiwan early on Tuesday following 48 hours of intense Chinese warplane operations involving more than 50 aircraft.
Plane spotters watching the skies around the democratic island, which China claims as part of its territory, picked up one of the Navy’s P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft as it departed an air base in Okinawa, Japan, before making a beeline for the Bashi Channel, south of Taiwan.
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