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A Pentagon-led delegation will accuse China next week of aggressive and dangerous interception and tracking of American reconnaissance planes in what looms as another extended diplomatic standoff between Beijing and the United States.
In talks scheduled to open in the Chinese capital Wednesday, the Bush administration will insist the kind of reconnaissance conducted by a U.S. plane that made an emergency landing at a Chinese air base April 1 is routinely carried out by some half-dozen Asian countries, including China, a senior U.S. official said Friday.
Recent U.S. flights, however, have been intercepted by Chinese jets that maneuvered as close as three feet to surveillance aircraft, which prompted strong State Department complaints to Beijing in December and again in January, U.S. officials said.
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