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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Chinese fishing boats engaged in "dangerous" maneuvers near a US Navy ship in international waters off China, in the latest provocative encounter with American surveillance vessels, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. "It is unsafe and dangerous behavior and it needs to be addressed" diplomatically, spokesman Bryan Whitman said as he described last Thursday's approach of a pair of Chinese vessels to the USNS Victorious, which he said was engaged in "routine operations." The USNS Victorious and another unarmed surveillance vessel, the USNS Impeccable, were involved in a series of close encounters with Chinese ships in the South...