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China has most likely detained the crew to obtain more time to pick apart the advanced Navy plane piece by piece. Self-righteous exhortations from the administration about “sovereign territory” notwithstanding, when advanced technology happens to fall out of the sky, it is common practice for nations to take advantage of the opportunity. The U.S. would surely have seized a similar chance; in fact, the last time America managed to get its hands on a sunken Russian submarine, it investigated the ship thoroughly. Though it is unfortunate that military secrets might be lost, nothing...
...gathering equipment could be a major setback for the Pentagon. Although the crew is reported to have begun destroying classified data and equipment, it's not yet clear whether the job was completed. And the fact that the Chinese inspected the plane despite Washington's insistence that it was sovereign U.S. territory - President Bush twice within an hour on Monday urged the Chinese to send the plane home without "further tampering" - is unlikely to earn brownie points with a U.S. administration that sees China as a strategic rival, rather than as a strategic partner (as President Clinton described Beijing). Chinese...
...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 110 km off China's coast; China considers its sovereign airspace to extend 320 km offshore, even though international agreements recognize only 19 km. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao declared that the plane had violated Chinese airspace, landed without permission and thus lost its sovereign immunity?so the Chinese government would be perfectly within its rights to go aboard...
...going to court, we would first have to get past all sorts of legal hurdles, such as the doctrine of sovereign immunity, under which the government can be sued only if it allows itself to be sued. Eventually we would bang heads with Clarence Thomas and his like-minded colleagues on the Supreme Court. I'd rather take my chances speeding on the New Jersey Turnpike in a BMW with Rodney King at the wheel and a blond hanging out the window...
...grant the U.S. access to the detained personnel appeared to signal that there are limits as to how far Beijing wants to push President Bush into a crisis, the fact that Chinese sources reported that the plane had been boarded in defiance of the U.S. insistence that it is sovereign territory suggests a more provocative stance...