Word: hainan
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TIME.com: A day after the U.S. resumes surveillance flights off the Chinese coast, Beijing says the EP-3 stranded at Hainan won't be able to fly out. Is this a case of "Now that your spy planes are flying again, you're going to get this one back in Ziploc bags...
...after China test fired missiles towards Taiwan in 1996; China did it after the U.S. bombed its embassy in Belgrade in 1999. Which is why Wednesday's mixed message suggests the Bush administration is not unanimous on just how deeply the U.S.-China relationship has been damaged by the Hainan spy-plane standoff...
...will only strengthen Beijing's impression that China policy is now driven by the hawks in Washington. Most of the U.S. officials they've had to deal with from the Bush administration so far have been military types - particularly since the Hainan accident. And it worries Beijing that there is no one at the policy-making level in Washington who the Chinese would consider experts on Chinese affairs...
...episode began when a pair of F-8s scrambled from the Lingshui air base on Hainan Island and began shadowing the U.S. plane. Wang brushed twice within 5 ft. of the U.S. plane before he misjudged and flew his jet's tail through the EP-3E's left outboard propeller. "The first thing I thought," Osborn recalled Saturday, "was this guy just killed us." The F-8 broke in half, slicing off the EP-3E's nose and disabling the right wing's inner engine. Wang fell to his death along with the flaming wreckage. The U.S. plane plunged into...
...Washington Post's estimable David Broder is getting after George W. Bush for ignoring his presidential duties as an empathizer. Not enough emotion, Broder suggests, is emanating from the Bush White House. In the midst of the (fairly short) Hainan Island standoff, the midwestern floods, the riots in Cincinnati, the rising gasoline prices, writes Broder, President Bush has been uncommunicative, "stoic to the point of reticence...