Advanced fighter jets from the United States and China came face to face recently, according to the commander of the United States’ air presence in the Indo-Pacific. “We recently had, I wouldn’t call it an engagement, but we got relatively close to the J-20s with our F-35s in the East China Sea, and were relatively impressed with the command and control that was associated with the J-20s,” said Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, Commander of the Pacific Air Forces during a March 14 interview with the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. The F-35 and J-20 are the most advanced fighters in the American and Chinese arsenals respectively. The incident marks one of the first publicly disclosed direct encounters between the two, and Wilsbach noted that the Chinese military was proving capable with the technology. “What we’re noticing is they are flying it pretty well,” Wilsbach said of the Chinese pilot’s performance during …