China Fires Two Missiles Into Sea As “Warning To The US” After Spy Plane Seen In ‘No-Fly’ Zone

The Chinese military fired two missiles into South China Sea as a warning to the US after Beijing accused an American spy plane of entering its no-fly zone according to media reports.

The South China Post reported that “China launched two medium-range missiles into the South China Sea on Wednesday morning, a source close to the Chinese military said, sending a warning to the United States”

China claims the move was in retaliation for the flying of a US spy plane off its north coast during a live-fire naval drill by the Chinese armed forces

Zero Hedge reports: The launch is said to be in response to the major incident from Tuesday, wherein China’s PLA military angrily denounced that a US U-2 spy plane allegedly entered a ‘no-fly zone’ off China’s coast while the PLA conducted live-fire military drills. It was unclear exactly where the claimed breach of airspace happened, however. 

Later reports suggested the spy plane was caught seeking to observe PLA drills in the Bohai Sea off China’s north coast.

The SCMP details further of the deeply alarming “warning” missile launch, citing unnamed Chinese military sources:

One of the missiles, a DF-26B, was launched from the northwestern province of Qinghai, while the other, a DF-21D, lifted off from Zhejiang province in the east. Both were fired into an area southeast of Hainan province and the Paracel Islands, the source said.

The landing areas were within a zone that Hainan maritime safety authorities said on Friday would be off limits because of military exercises from Monday to Saturday.

Needless to say this “warning” takes things to a whole new level.

“This is China’s response to the potential risks brought by the increasingly frequent incoming US warplanes and military vessels in the South China Sea,” a military source told SCMP. “China doesn’t want the neighboring countries to misunderstand Beijing’s goals.”

After all, following the Tuesday incident Beijing in a veiled threat said an “unexpected incident” could have easily resulted over the US spy plane operation.