Australian defence department also says it has been monitoring three Chinese ships in the Coral Sea
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The defence department has accused the Chinese navy of another “unsafe and unprofessional” incident where flares were allegedly dropped near an Australian aircraft on routine operations in the South China Sea on Tuesday.
Defence also released information about three Chinese ships it has been monitoring in the Coral Sea, to Australia’s north, for several days.
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