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Originally posted by EarthUnificationFrontier
Meanwhile, US had officially apologised, admitted to the violation of Chinese airspace.
english.people.com.cn...
There you go, debate closed.
Originally posted by chinawhite
rogue1,
While you did bring up the same argument already you never went back to answer me when i challenged you on it
Maybe you can write a "essay" on it
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Originally posted by EarthUnificationFrontier
Well in that case, get a pair of glasses, take a few English reading classes, click on the link and read again.
The black boxes found on both planes were never revealed, thus no one actually knows who initial the first contact.
Originally posted by EarthUnificationFrontier
And why is that US sends planes spying on China? Affraid? Paranoid? Noisy?
I still don't see why you are aruging when your own government has alerady apologized.
CNN Source:
"........United States conveyed (in a letter) to the Chinese people and to the family of pilot Wang Wei that "We are very sorry for their loss." The United States also said, "We are very sorry for the entering of China's airspace and that the landing did not have verbal clearance, but very pleased the crew landed safely. The words "very sorry" were used twice here......"
The phrase and their respectively events, "entering of China's airspace" and "Landing did not have verbal clearence" are seperated in the letter, indicating the American's appology to both the violation of Chinese airspace by the spy plane prior to the emergency landing, and the second continuing violation of Chinese airspace when the plane landed in Hainan island itself.
Conclusively, it was the Americans that appologised and admited to be at fault officially in national television and internationally, not the Chinese. Your further arguing in this matter is pointless.
Originally posted by kuhl
If this is a true account of the meeting then I hope the U.S. ,CAnadian and Austrailian authorities are taking note of this and drawing up contingencie plans.(Which I'm sure they are and probably already excist).
The NSA should be working overtime on this to justify some of their immense budget.
As for the chinese defence ministers comments on a biological weapom that will not harm "yellow people" I find this very niave and disturbing.Would it really be possible to make a bio weapon that discriminates against colour of skin (pygment). I doubt it.
This speech is from 2005 so hopefully the Governments of the respective countries are reacting to this revalation.
Originally posted by rogue1
Urgh, because you said nothing worth responding to. Since you brought it up though, I decided to respond and take apart your post bit by bit - all to easy. You should really check your information or at least educate yourself a bit more on the subject before posting.
You really have to brush up on what an international border is. The EP-3 was well outside China's airspace Sea and airspace territorial limits only extend 12 Nautical miles past a country's borders, that's right, that includes China
Originally posted by chinawhite
Well here is about terrtorial overflights
You really have to brush up on what an international border is. The EP-3 was well outside China's airspace Sea and airspace territorial limits only extend 12 Nautical miles past a country's borders, that's right, that includes China
LoL...YOU might want to bush up on what and where this incidecnt took place. It happened in chinas EEZ. This states that the state is in control of 200 miles adjacent to their land border to develop oil and natural resources etc. But allows the innocent passage of international shiping as long as it does not breach the sovernity of the nation state. The EP-3 was conducting surveillance (also known as spying) on chinas coastal port. that is in breach of article 58.
Yeah in the EEZ?
Rather than sending up fighter planes, my instinct tells me the U.S. is more likely to resume surveillance flights, but start them off a lot further away from the Chinese coastline — 50 or more miles out rather than at the 12-mile boundary. That allows the U.S. to maintain the precedent of surveillance flights and show the Chinese we're still in the neighborhood without sticking them in the eye. If everyone wants to calm the situation down, I think flights will resume this week but well offshore. And over time the flights would then move closer again.
www.time.com...
Originally posted by chinawhite
Yeah....
Air Defense Identification Zone. look that up
It happened in chinas EEZ. This states that the state is in control of 200 miles adjacent to their land border to develop oil and natural resources etc. But allows the innocent passage of international shiping as long as it does not breach the sovernity of the nation state.