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Sadly, if there is anything to be learned from the recent incident involving a U.S. Navy EP-3 surveillance plane, it is that dealing with China as a strategic partner is a mistake and that any partnership has been quite one-sided indeed...
...That international boundaries should prevail, as simple as that. There's a harder mood in Washington now, as the U.S. view is confirmed that the EP-3 was struck by the Chinese plane. The Bush administration is not going to back away on this one, and will want to resume surveillance flights as soon as possible after the April 18 meeting...
...qianyi, a deep apology, for an incident it would be more inclined to blame on the other side. Instead, the U.S. twice used the English phrase "very sorry," first for the loss of the Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, and second for the failure of the pilot of the stricken EP-3 spy plane to seek verbal clearance for entering Chinese airspace and landing at Hainan...
...soon, it won't become a crisis.'" But even Powell had trouble getting through for a private talk with anyone who mattered in Beijing, and the public tone was not encouraging. Chinese officials claimed that the U.S. plane had veered suddenly into the F-8 fighter, even though the EP-3E is about half as fast as and far less nimble than the Chinese jet. The collision had occurred about 70 miles off China's coast; China considers its sovereign airspace to extend 200 miles offshore, even though international agreements recognize only 12 miles. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao declared...
...When satellite photographs showed the plane partly covered in tarps - the better to hide the work of prying Chinese engineers - it confirmed the administration's fears. While the EP-3 is an old plane, a model that began flying in 1969, its electronic guts are up-to-the-minute. No EP-3E has ever been shot down or captured, even though the "flying pig," as it is called, is a long-range, slow-flying unarmed aircraft. "The most important thing to the Chinese on that airplane was the data we had collected earlier that day," says Norman Polmar, an independent...