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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Fred Levine who wrote (45097)4/5/2001 1:51:09 PM
From: mitch-c  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
OT - China, etc.

...but it is my contention that this would not have happened with the better relations that Clinton had. They didn't fly so close or threaten our planes then.

The Chinese were doing exactly that back then. They have been getting more and more aggressive with these intercepts over a year or more. This one is simply "the one" that went beyond the usual close call.

We went through something similar back in 1986, with "freedom of navigation" exercises in the Gulf of Sidra. Libya claimed that body of water as its territory, and after various escalations, got four of its fighters splashed.

- Mitch
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