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...Matthew Forney: The focus of the Chinese media has been on the martyrdom of pilot Wang Wei. It's clear to me that both sides, having resolved the immediate problem of the U.S. crew held in China, are now taking a much more hard-line approach to satisfy domestic constituencies, and to protect their own space. China's version has been, I think, more ham-fisted, because it has greater control over its media. But there are similarities between the Chinese portrayals of the martyr Wang Wei and U.S. portrayals of its air crew, which is also presented as heroic...
...read China the riot act about keeping a safe distance from U.S. planes when surveillance flights resume. China is saying before it hands back the plane, it wants the U.S. to undertake to end surveillance flights off the Chinese coast, and to pay compensation for the loss of Wang Wei and his aircraft. Something here has to give - what's it likely...
...space for the conflict over the spy plane to simmer down. And, of course, also to allow the Bush administration to establish just what its China policy is going to be. At least with the U.S. crew home and the Chinese having called off the search for Wang Wei, we have closure on the most emotional aspects of the spy-plane issue. But for the negotiators, the hard part is still to come...
...front were trying to save the aircraft, while the other 22 crew members in back were trying to destroy what was inside it. Two Chinese F-8 fighters had been tracking the plane closely, too closely, for 10 minutes. The U.S. flyers even recognized one of the pilots, Wang Wei, a notorious hotdogger who one time flew so close to an American plane that he could be seen holding up his e-mail address on a piece of paper. It was Wang's plane that clipped the EP-3E's left wing, slashed one of its four propellers into pieces...
...quite-apology, Washington wouldn't even go as far as shenbiao 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...