{"id":418262,"date":"2021-06-02T11:55:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T06:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418262"},"modified":"2021-06-02T12:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T07:20:52","slug":"malaysia-to-summon-chinese-envoy-over-jets-intrusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/malaysia-to-summon-chinese-envoy-over-jets-intrusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia to summon Chinese envoy over jets intrusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s government will issue a diplomatic protest against an \u201cintrusion\u201d by 16 Chinese military aircraft into its airspace, the foreign minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said late Tuesday that he will summon the Chinese ambassador to explain \u201cthis breach of the Malaysian airspace and sovereignty.\u201d Malaysia\u2019s air force said its radar picked up the Chinese aircraft Monday near Malaysian-administered Luconia Shoals, a rich fishing ground in the disputed South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese planes then moved nearly 60 nautical miles (110 kilometers) off the coast of Sarawak on Borneo island. <\/p>\n<p>After attempts to contact the aircraft failed, the air force sent its fighter planes to identify them. It said they were Ilyushin Il-76 and Xian Y-20 strategic transporters, flying at between 23,000-27,000 feet (7,000-8,000 meters) \u2013 altitude typically used by commercial flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s government will issue a diplomatic protest against an \u201cintrusion\u201d by 16 Chinese military aircraft into its airspace, the foreign minister said. Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said late Tuesday that he will summon the Chinese ambassador to explain \u201cthis breach of the Malaysian airspace and sovereignty.\u201d Malaysia\u2019s air force said its radar picked up the Chinese aircraft Monday near Malaysian-administered Luconia Shoals, a rich fishing ground in the disputed South China Sea. The Chinese planes then moved nearly 60 nautical miles (110 kilometers) off the coast of Sarawak on Borneo island. After attempts to contact the aircraft failed, the air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}