Word: collisional
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Though authoritarian leaders are supposed to be immune to polls and popular will, Jiang also had to worry about the Chinese public. Anger at the U.S. could easily twist into fury at him for failing to defend the motherland. "If Mao Zedong were the leader today, he would have shot...
Jiang's hard line revealed the weakness of his position at home. The crisis hit at the most delicate moment in his career since he took power after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. More than anyone else, he was responsible for restoring U.S.-China relations after that uprising. But Jiang...
Even before the collision, anger at the U.S. was running high. Beijing felt that the Bush Administration had failed to give China credit for new policies designed to reach out to Washington. In November, China agreed to control its missile exports, but Bush condemned it for selling a communications cable...
Because the U.S. plane was being tracked by a pair of F-8s - a homegrown version of the Russians' venerable MiG-21 - there was talk that an effort by the crew of the EP-3 to avoid one of the F-8s might have inadvertently led to a collision with...
The world has seen military flare-ups in these parts before. In 1983, to the north, a Soviet fighter downed a Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 aboard. And Saturday's mid-air collision occurred just outside the Gulf of Tonkin, where in 1964 President Johnson...