"A “military spokeswoman” told us that, in the words of the network, “the sources of these flashes are suspected to be Chinese.”
The attacks from the fishing boats are almost certainly the work of China’s part-time maritime militia, the so-called Little Blue Men."
China Is Trying to Bring Down American Planes With Lasers. Time to Get Tough.
Militant Chinese fishermen are flashing lasers at American military planes flying over the highly contested East China Sea, which is bordered by Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan as well as China.
Washington should consider the attacks, almost certainly directed by Beijing, as attempts to injure pilots and their crews. The American response, therefore, should be immediate in timing and devastating in effect, perhaps the only way to prevent the Chinese from eventually bringing down a U.S. plane.
Pentagon sources, speaking mostly without attribution, have revealed that since last September there have been almost two dozen known laserings of American military aircraft from fishing vessels and shore locations.
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