CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT TRANSPONDER MANIPULATION IN RECONNAISSANCE MISSIONS, AERIAL INCIDENTS CASES AND CHICAGO CONVENTION 1944
Journal: Jurnal Bina Mulia Hukum
Year: 2023

Throughout 2020, the People's Republic of China (PRC) stated that the United States (US) manipulated the electronic identity code of its military aircraft (transponder code) over the South China Sea by using the identity of a civilian aircraft to carry out reconnaissance missions. The discussion of the incidents has faded in the past two years, even being regarded by some observers as a 'common' practice having been used since the Cold War era by the US. These incidents have never been heard to