By HELENE COOPERAPRIL 10, 2014
The New York Times
ULAN BATOR,
Mongolia — When Robert M. Gates visited China in 2011 as the United States
defense secretary, the military greeted him with an unexpected and, in the view
of American military officials, provocative test of a Chinese stealth fighter
jet, a bold show of force that stunned the visiting Americans and may even have
surprised the Chinese president at the time, Hu Jintao.