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...Pentagon: Good losers A plane chock-full of top-of-the-line intelligence gear remains in Chinese hands, and 24 U.S. personnel spent 11 days as unwilling "guests" of Beijing after being bumped in international airspace by a Chinese fighter. The crew may have destroyed many of the plane's most vital secrets, but its loss (though it may yet come back in Ziploc bags) was still a setback, and the military had little option but to sit on its hands while the diplomats crafted a humble not-quite-apology when the Pentagon was more inclined to believe the Chinese...
...onboard the dying Navy reconnaissance plane when it began to fall out of the sky. The two pilots up front were trying to save the aircraft, while the other 22 crew members in back were trying to destroy what was inside it. Two Chinese F-8 fighters had been tracking the plane closely, too closely, for 10 minutes. The U.S. flyers even recognized one of the pilots, Wang Wei, a notorious hotdogger who one time flew so close to an American plane that he could be seen holding up his e-mail address on a piece of paper...
...wrapped up soon, it won't become a crisis.'" But even Powell had trouble getting through for a private talk with anyone who mattered in Beijing, and the public tone was not encouraging. Chinese officials claimed that the U.S. plane had veered suddenly into the F-8 fighter, even though the EP-3E is about half as fast as and far less nimble than the Chinese jet. The collision had occurred about 70 miles off China's coast; China considers its sovereign airspace to extend 200 miles offshore, even though international agreements recognize only 12 miles. Foreign Ministry spokesman...
...been four days since a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter collided over the South China Sea. The incident was undoubtedly an accident and a regrettable one: though the U.S. crew made an emergency landing on Hainan Island and thankfully escaped injury, the Chinese pilot is presumed lost at sea. However, an incident that could have been addressed with propriety by both sides has instead degenerated into a serious diplomatic incident, and both the U.S. and the Chinese government should take immediate steps to heal the wounds opened by the crash...
...While U.S. diplomats are increasingly frustrated in their efforts to engage officials in Beijing on the subject, Jiang responded to Bush's comments by repeating his demand that the U.S. apologize and accept full responsibility for the collision between the U.S. plane and a downed Chinese F-8 fighter. And that's a price Washington has no intention of paying. "There's nothing to apologize for," said Secretary of State Colin Powell. In other words, stalemate...