China protests resumption of U.S. surveillance flights

BEIJING (AFX-ASIA) - China has protested the resumption of U.S. surveillance flights near its coastal waters, the official Xinhua news agency reported.	    "China has constantly opposed U.S. spy flights off China's coast and will continue to lodge serious representations with the United States on the resumption of such flights," Xinhua news agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi as saying.	    Sun urged the U.S. to "draw lessons and correct such wrong doings", the report said.	    A Pentagon official earlier said a U.S. Air Force surveillance plane had flown off the coast of northeastern China on Monday, resuming intelligence-gathering flights.	    The flights were suspended on April 1 when a Navy EP-3 surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter.	    The EP-3 remains stranded on the southern Chinese island of Hainan.	    Monday's flight was conducted by an RC-135 "Rivet Joint" jet that flew from Japan on a route off northeastern China, said a Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 

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