After spat over spy plane, China tells US to stop reconnaissance

WASHINGTON—A senior Chinese military official in Beijing told President Barack Obama’s visiting national security adviser to end “close-in reconnaissance” less than a month after an armed Chinese fighter jet conducted an aggressive midair intercept of a U.S. Navy aircraft.

According to a report Tuesday by China’s state-run New China News Service, Chinese official Fan Changlong advised Susan Rice that the U.S. military “should reduce and ultimately stop” its spy missions on China.