euters

A Chinese aircraft performed an unsafe maneuver during an air intercept of a U.S. spy plane last week, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday, an incident revealed just as Chinese President Xi Jinping kicks off a weeklong U.S. visit.

The intercept occurred on Sept. 15, about 80 miles (130 km) east of the Shandong Peninsula in the Yellow Sea and involved an American RC-135 reconnaissance plane, said Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook.