U.S. Navy is seeing more 'unsafe' aerial intercepts by China, says Seventh Fleet commander

SSG Robert Mark Odom Back to the Bad Old Days! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

..."The commander defended so-called "freedom of navigation" operations by the United States and other countries as part of a rules-based order in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

He maintained that China's claims over the South China Sea need to be "challenged."

"If you don't challenge it, the problem is that it'll become the norm … People just accept it. And then all of a sudden, people can make claims like the entire South China Sea is their territorial sea."