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To: TobagoJack who wrote (2836)	4/5/2001 1:52:34 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Thanks for your responses Jay on your day off... The reason I wanted to touch on that "spy" stuff is that I wouldn't refer to Chinese military personnel as spies had one of their surveillance planes declared an emergency and landed at a US base. And I probably wouldn't give them their plane back right away, and offer the plane crew asylum, which they would probably choose over returning home in disgrace, and probably prison or a firing squad (for losing state secrets). And if the Chinese military was fully under the control of the civilian politicians, I might be less likely to be suspicious of their activities. But this dangerous harassment of US surveillance aircraft operating WELL within international waters (buzzing them, hot-dogging) suggests that NO plane or boat will be safe if they continue to follow this mindset. It just seems to me that the Chinese government reaction has been extremely short-sighted, mis-guided, inflammatory, and extremely amateurish. Why the heck would they want to increase their level of vulnerability to embarrassment by trying to force the US to "apologize", when they know darn well that we have all the tapes of the transmissions from that intercept. We know what the Chinese pilots were saying to their own people, as well as to the US pilot. It seems to me that the US has only to release this as they did with the KAL 007 shootdown by the Soviets back in the early '80s, and we'll see Bejing in a situation where they are beyond being able to save face. And I wonder if this is the strategy the US is advancing in these negotiations. Regards, Ron