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A Top Gun-style propaganda video from the Chinese government claims to show one of their bomber pilot bravely facing down fighter jets from nearby Taiwan.
Mainland Chinese media accused Taiwan’s military of "provocation" during the newly released programme entitled "Role Models".
The short film introduces the pilot of a Xian H-6 bomber named Liu Rui as a hero.
The swaggering runway walk and apparent brave defeat of a "hostile" power seem akin to Tom Cruise’s character Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the 1986 film Top Gun.
Narrating over the footage taken from his aircraft, dated from March 2015, the 38-year-old pilot tells viewers that he was on a patrol mission flying over the Bashi Channel in the Pacific Ocean when the two F-16 fighter jets intercepted him.