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Yesterday’s statement of regret on the loss of the Chinese pilot issued by Secretary of State Colin Powell was welcome and appropriate. A formal apology before the facts are gathered would have been a disservice to the American crew. But the statement should have come days earlier, as soon as the Chinese pilot was listed as missing. The U.S. should attempt to make up for its laxity by offering its aid in any search for the wreckage and communicating its regret directly to the pilot’s family...
...fact that public pressure on Beijing is more likely to prolong than resolve the crisis, Washington worked to cool the temperature of the dispute Wednesday: No more clock-is-ticking public statements by President Bush. Instead, Secretary of State Colin Powell was on point, issuing a statement of regret that, while well short of the apology the Chinese had demanded, shifted the tone away from the language of confrontation; he then hand-delivered a letter to Beijing's most senior diplomat setting out Washington's ideas for a diplomatic resolution. Most important, perhaps, the contents of that letter were...
TIME.com: The U.S. appears to be giving diplomacy time to resolve the spy plane standoff. The tone of official statements appears to have been toned down somewhat, and Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement of regret over the death of the Chinese airman looks like a further effort to cool tensions. How is the U.S. trying to move the diplomatic process forward...
...couple of weeks later, Cathay Pacific had reason to regret the inaction. On July 23, one of its passenger aircraft, a DC-4 Skymaster en route from Bangkok to Hong Kong, became the centerpiece of a three-day imbroglio that U.S. Navy historians later labeled the Hainan Incident. The death toll was higher than last week's affair: four of the DC-4's 12 passengers and crew died. And the U.S. reaction was considerably less muted...
...Both men would prefer to go legit and offer their services as security advisers to local ISPs. They're not getting far. "They just ignore us," says Hiiro. When their user databases get hacked and they find a few thousand missing credit card numbers, these websites and isps may regret that decision...