Word: soiled
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...British not only won the right to sell opium (grown in their Indian territories) inside China, but also established the system of low-tariff "Treaty Ports" - of which Shanghai swiftly became the most successful - along with the principle of "extraterritoriality." This stipulated that foreigners committing crimes on Chinese soil or in Chinese waters would be judged by the laws of their own countries rather than by those of China. The United States benefitted from all these provisions, as did the other Western powers and Japan...
However, we are very concerned that China’s interest in the plane has led it to postpone the crew’s return to U.S. soil. China has advanced no satisfying explanation for effectively holding American servicemen and women prisoner. U.S. officials should be given unlimited access to the crew, and efforts to return them (and the plane as well) must begin immediately. The Bush administration has set no deadline for the crew’s return, but they could have been returned to their base in Japan within 24 hours had the Chinese government wished...
...wartime, extreme measures - crashing the plane or ditching into the sea - might have been expected. The plane carried life rafts and its crews are trained to survive such landings. But even though some military officers are grumbling that the spy plane never should have landed on Chinese soil, most military officers interviewed in recent days think the EP-3 crew made the right choice. "That plane can fly back to Japan on three [of its four] engines," a senior Navy officer said. "So it had to be pretty damaged to limp to Hainan. You have to give the crew credit...
...course, Cummings has had rich soil to cultivate. Britons remain skeptical about the E.U.'s progressive pooling of national sovereignty, as one might expect from an island nation whose defining moments, from Waterloo to the Battle of Britain, have come from fighting Continental hegemons. Unlike the British tabloids, Cummings never descends to blasting nonexistent Brussels directives that supposedly compel straight bananas and cucumbers. But he does use all the techniques of modern politics - systematic fertilization of grassroots support, instant response to news, slick website, skillful ads - to convince both the intelligentsia and voters that relinquishing a national currency, especially control...
...script for a moment: Imagine a Chinese plane flying a surveillance mission off the Florida coast colliding with an Air Force F-16 sent on an aggressive monitoring mission. The U.S. fighter goes down and the pilot is lost; the Chinese plane is forced to land on U.S. soil. The incident occurs at a moment when China is about to supply a package of sophisticated weapons to Cuba (possibly including the very same model spy plane now in U.S. hands); is planning to deploy a missile shield that would neutralize the U.S. nuclear arsenal; and has signaled that curbing...