{"id":2299422,"date":"2024-07-18T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-video-claims-to-show-chinese-fighter-intercepting-american-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T13:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T17:23:30","slug":"video-claims-to-show-chinese-fighter-intercepting-american-aircraft-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-claims-to-show-chinese-fighter-intercepting-american-aircraft-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Video claims to show Chinese fighter intercepting American aircraft &#8211; fact check"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-claims-to-show-chinese-fighter-intercepting-american-aircraft-fact-check%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2299422&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-calls-for-healing-reconciliation\/\" title=\"President Trump calls for healing, reconciliation\">video shared<\/a> on Facebook \u200cclaims to \u200cshow a Chinese fighter\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/european-regulator-to-lift-boeing-737-max-grounding-in-january\/\" title=\"European regulator to lift Boeing 737 MAX grounding in January\">aircraft<\/a> intercepting an American aircraft, \u200cbut the aircraft being intercepted was actually Canadian, not American. The \u2062U.S. is considering stricter trade restrictions on chips that would impact China&#8217;s chip industry. This \u2062information highlights the importance \u2062of fact-checking and verifying \u2064sources before believing or sharing any content.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>A video&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GlobeEyeN\/videos\/1576519213240700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GlobeEyeN\/videos\/1576519213240700&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1721313449325000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0kW-kBO55NAv1uaHQ-tqUc\"><span id=\"m_-4601336354881244106mt-tracked-link_2_1721226616551\"><\/span>shared on Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;claims to show a Chinese fighter aircraft intercepting an American aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The aircraft being intercepted was Canadian, not American.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is mulling whether or not to adopt stricter trade restrictions on chips that would help constrain China&rsquo;s chip industry, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-07-17\/us-considers-tougher-trade-rules-against-companies-in-chip-crackdown-on-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2024\/07\/17\/fact-check-beijing-volt-typhoon-us-disinformation-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Beijing Claims&rsquo; Volt Typhoon&rsquo; Is A US Disinformation Campaign)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social media users have been sharing a video claiming to show a Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kushner-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize\/\" title=\"Kushner Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize\">fighter jet<\/a> intercepting an American aircraft. One user wrote, &ldquo;In the airspace of the South China Sea, a Chinese PLA Air Force fighter jet is repelling a US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft. The two planes are only 3 meters apart.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This claim is misleading. While the fighter jet in the video is Chinese, the other aircraft is not American, it is Canadian. Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found that the video is from October 2023 and shows a Chinese fighter jet intercepting a Canadian surveillance aircraft in international waters off the coast of China.<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nc7unKkuI04?si=DtwJ8rhXow_ZriNS\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A Chinese military jet intercepted a Canadian Armed Forces Aurora aircraft in an &ldquo;aggressive manner&rdquo; on Monday in international waters off the coast of China. &lsquo;They became very aggressive and to a degree we would deem it unsafe and unprofessional,&rsquo; Maj.-Gen. Iain Huddleston told Global News. In the exclusive footage, Global News&rsquo; Neetu Garcha can be heard saying &lsquo;are we okay?&rsquo; while a man on board the aircraft later said, &lsquo;This is an abnormal and unusual intercept,&#8217;&rdquo; the video description partially reads.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian surveillance aircraft was not in the South China Sea, as claimed by the post. It was near North Korea, as part of a United Nations operation meant to enforce sanctions against the isolated state, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/interception-canadian-military-plane-by-chinese-jets-is-unacceptable-ottawa-2023-10-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video circulating on Facebook falsely claims to show a Chinese fighter aircraft intercepting an American aircraft. However, the intercepted aircraft was actually Canadian, not American. The video is from October 2023 and shows a Chinese fighter jet intercepting a Canadian surveillance aircraft in international waters off the coast of China. The Canadian aircraft was near North Korea as part of a United Nations operation, not in the South China Sea as claimed in the post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2299423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1432844175-scaled-e1717163763719.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35474,35473,13420,35475,4440],"class_list":["post-2299422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-american-aircraft","tag-chinese-fighter","tag-fact-check","tag-intercepting","tag-video"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1432844175-scaled-e1717163763719.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2299423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}