Follow all the day’s news The jet sent out flares and then shards of aluminium chaff during the encounter over the South China Sea region.Photograph: ABC p Defence department says China fighter jet intercepted Australian aircraft 03:55 The Department of Defence has reported that an RAAF aircraft, the P-8A Poseidon, was intercepted by a Chinese J-16 fighter aircraft on 26 May “during a routine maritime surveillance activity in international airspace in the South China Sea region”.I want to stress that the activity of the P-8 form part of maritime surveillance activity which has been undertaken by Australia in the South...