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...With reporting by Jay Branegan, Massimo Calabresi, James Carney and Michael Duffy/Washington, Matthew Forney/Beijing, Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow and Thomas Sancton/Paris
...Branegan: It was very important for the U.S. to resume the surveillance flights, to reassert the principle that they had the right to make these flights in international airspace. That's even more important than getting the plane back under humiliating circumstances. And there would be no advantage to waiting for the plane to be returned before resuming the flights, since that would give the Chinese an incentive to keep the plane. The principle that the plane should be returned is self-evident; the principle that the U.S. has the right to fly surveillance missions in international airspace needed...
...With reporting by Jay Branegan, Massimo Calabresi, Elaine Shannon and Mark Thompson/Washington, Lucien O. Chauvin/Lima, Peter Katel/Mexico City and Ruth Morris/Bogota, with other bureaus
...traditional ambiguity on the question, designed in part to avoid emboldening Taiwanese leaders to declare independence. In a subsequent CNN interview, Bush appeared to backtrack, and emphasized Washington's continued opposition to Taiwan's independence and its belief in a "One China" policy. TIME State Department correspondent Jay Branegan explains the concerns of China watchers...
...Branegan: Because the President's statement on ABC News was a dramatic break with previous policy. For decades, we have maintained a "strategic ambiguity" about whether the U.S. would directly intervene to defend Taiwan. Up to now we haven't even had a defense treaty with Taiwan, and our military has not worked with the Taiwanese military to prepare for such a scenario. So for the President to take a position that appears to suggest we would use our own forces to defend Taiwan against Chinese attack is a dramatic shift, and could be read that way both in Beijing...