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By monday morning, some 36 hours had passed without progress. Bush met with Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney and agreed that it was time for him to make a statement and turn up the pressure on Jiang. But there were domestic political pressures at play as well...
Contrary to some of the grander theories about historical causation, even the complacency of a superpower can be severely challenged when something small goes wrong. The emergency landing of the damaged United States spy plane on Hainan Island after an aerial collision with a Chinese jet has reminded us once...
...Chinese authorities, in accordance with Chinese law that "a Native of this country having been killed... whether by accident or design," the person responsible must stand trial, ordered that the gunner be handed over to them. Though the foreigners trading there protested, pointing out that this was clearly an accidental homicide, they were forced to give in by the Chinese imposition of a total trade boycott and an impressive show of force. After a long delay while instructions were sought and eventually received from Beijing, the gunner was executed by strangulation. Trade resumed, but the cost was high...
...China in its own terms rather than in theirs. The Chinese communist government inherited these gains, and is certainly not likely to ever yield them up again, unless confronted with overwhelming force. Their pride demands that they call the shots, not only in normal situations but also in such accidental or even freakish encounters as that which has just occurred. For the United States to fail to understand this would be a serious mistake. Like the British, they are learning that sometimes things just happen in a way that gives the advantage to the other side. But unlike the British...
It has now 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...