Word: collisional
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Everyone had a job to do 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...
By the time news of the harrowing collision became public, a similar drill was being repeated in Washington and Beijing. Some on the front lines of the U.S.-China relationship were trying to save it, while others in the back seemed intent on blowing it up. Neither country was able...
The administration's initial response was to stay cool, keep quiet, give the Chinese room to move. "The message to the Chinese," says a White House official, "was, 'Guys, this is a very unfortunate incident. We'd like to get it wrapped up as quickly as possible, because if we...
The Internet, that supposed harbinger of democracy, has in recent days been used more for airing anti-Washington vitriol than for spreading the Bill of Rights. Variations of "Kill the Imperialist American Pigs" have littered Chinese message boards. Although the American version of the midair collision is available on the...
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...