A CNN camera crew that was on a U.S. Navy plane over the South China Sea on Friday captured a fighter jet from communist China harassing the aircraft while it made a routine flight.

The U.S. Navy P-8A reconnaissance plane was flying at 21,500 feet about 30 miles from the contested Paracel Islands where China has military bases.

“American aircraft. Chinese airspace is 12 nautical miles,” a Chinese woman from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said over the radio. “Not approaching any more or you bear all responsibility.”

The U.S. plane was quickly intercepted by a Chinese PLA J-11 fighter jet that flew just a couple hundred feet from the reconnaissance plane for a period of about 15 minutes before flying away.

The report said that the interaction underscored just how serious tensions are between the two countries.

The incident comes just a month after the U.S. first detected a Chinese spy balloon over U.S. airspace on January 28, which was shot down in early February off the coast of South Carolina after President Joe Biden allowed it to travel across the entire country, flying over sensitive military sites, over the period of a week.

The U.S. military released a new close-up photo of the spy balloon this week that was taken by the pilot of a U-2 spy plane who was monitoring the balloon as it flew over the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Defense just released this photo of the Chinese government spy balloon that was taken by the pilot of a U-2 spy plane. pic.twitter.com/gxXn4RiZTO

— Yashar Ali 🐘 یاشار (@yashar) February 22, 2023

When Biden finally gave the order to shoot it down over the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. military used a single air-to-air AIM-9X Sidewinder missile fired from an F-22 Raptor to carry out the task.

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Glen David VanHerck, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), said that the balloon was up to 200 feet tall and weighed “in excess of a couple thousand pounds.”

After the spy balloon was shot down, the U.S. subsequently downed three more unidentified objects over Alaska, Lake Huron, and Canada.

“It is also common for U.S. balloons to illegally enter the airspace of other countries,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin claimed without evidence. “Since last year, U.S. high-altitude balloons have illegally flown over China’s airspace more than 10 times without the approval of Chinese authorities.”

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said that the communist nation’s claims were a lie and that China was trying to deflect from the embarrassing situation they have caused.

“It is China that has a high-altitude surveillance balloon program for intelligence collection, connected to the People’s Liberation Army, that it has used to violate the sovereignty of the United States and over 40 countries across five continents,” Watson tweeted.

“This is the latest example of China scrambling to do damage control,” she continued. “It has repeatedly and wrongly claimed the surveillance balloon it sent over the United States was a weather balloon and to this day has failed to offer any credible explanations for its intrusion into our airspace and the airspace of others.”

Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-PA) wife was slammed on social media Friday after she revealed that the first thing she did after her husband was hospitalized with severe depression was flee the country to go on a vacation.

Fetterman checked himself into a hospital last week for a multi-week inpatient treatment regimen after the attending physician of the United States Congress recommended that he do so.

Gisele Fetterman, who lived illegally in the U.S. for more than a decade, said that she took the family to Canada for a vacation after leaving her husband in the hospital.

“I am not really sure how to navigate this journey but am figuring it out slowly,” she said. “1 week ago today when the news dropped, the kids were off from school and media trucks circled our home. I did the first thing I could think of … pack them in the car and drive.”

I am not really sure how to navigate this journey but am figuring it out slowly. 1 week ago today when the news dropped, the kids were off from school and media trucks circled our home. I did the first thing I could think of … pack them in the car and drive.

— Gisele Barreto Fetterman (@giselefetterman) February 24, 2023

Gisele Fetterman faced intense criticism online over the move, which many said was indicative of narcissistic behavior.

Defense of Freedom Institute spokeswoman Angela Morabito tweeted, “She abandoned her husband in the hospital, took her kids to another country, and wants you to believe she’s inspirational.”

Michael Duncan of the Cavalry public affairs firm tweeted, “In any good prenup this behavior would immediately annul the marriage,” adding, “I still can’t believe [the tweet is] real, this is textbook malignant narcissist behavior.”

Seattle-based conservative radio host Jason Rantz tweeted: “Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-PA) wife brags about abandoning her husband in the hospital and fleeing the country on vacation while he battles severe depression.”

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NBC News reporter Dasha Burns said last week that senior aides to Fetterman have indicated that “it’s been difficult to distinguish the stroke from the depression – saying it’s hard to tell at times if Fetterman is ‘not hearing you, or is he sort of crippled by his depression and social anxiety.’”

“A senior aide tells me both the staff and Fetterman himself were taken by surprise by the severe onset of depression,” she added. “The aide also says this hasn’t compromised his ability to do the job going forward, and he will be back to work once he has taken care of his mental health.”

The New York Times reported earlier this month that Fetterman was struggling with “serious mental health” issues and often cannot understand the words that others are saying to him following the stroke that nearly killed him last year.