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...riot act about keeping a safe distance from U.S. planes when surveillance flights resume. China is saying before it hands back the plane, it wants the U.S. to undertake to end surveillance flights off the Chinese coast, and to pay compensation for the loss of Wang Wei and his aircraft. Something here has to give - what's it likely...
...still too early to tell. This is the first major contact between the two sides since the aircraft incident. But President Bush is scheduled to visit China in October, and such visits are usually preceded by months of intensive meetings at lower levels to finesse agreements and documents for the leaders to sign. If those meetings don't take place, that would be an indication that the relationship is in more trouble than we thought. There are also commercial interests at stake: If China's state-owned companies stop awarding contracts to qualified U.S. firms, that would also indicate...
...Chinese respond to reports that the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk may be sent to the region...
...area, the Chinese pilots had become more aggressive. "Sometimes they're so close you can see their faces," David Cecka, Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class onboard the downed plane, had told his mother. It got so bad that U.S. officials complained. "We went to the Chinese and said, 'Your aircraft are not intercepting in a professional manner. There is a safety issue here,'" recalls Admiral Dennis Blair, head of the U.S. Pacific Command. "It's not normal practice to play bumper cars...
...designed to sound firm but not threatening. The White House had decided not to attack the Chinese pilot for hotdogging near the U.S. plane, and instead called the collision an "accident." "Our priorities are the prompt and safe return of the crew," Bush said, "and the return of the aircraft without further damaging or tampering...