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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: foundation who wrote (9784)	4/13/2001 9:20:35 AM
From: samim anbarcioglu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196584

>>But the incident will put the onus on the U.S. to take steps, according to Kwa. "The U.S. will need to take the initiative and be more open about the frequency and nature of its surveillance flights," he says. << What an utterly stupid statement. How about sending the weekly flight schedule so they can turn their weapon radars off during our recon flights.

To: foundation who wrote (9784)	4/13/2001 4:38:31 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Respond to of 196584

The article contains several points that do not seem to be consistent with other, more reliable information. First, it is now quite certain that the U.S. plane was FORCED to land at Hainan by the Chinese, and that the accident took place in international airspace. Second, the article assumes a monolithic policy in China with little or no dispute on strategy between the military and civilian leaders. Yet there is evidence that this whole incident arose because of a military initiative that was not authorized or approved by the Chinese President. Then, when the facts became known, the military concocted a spin on the facts to make it look like China was in the right. As the true facts come out, China will not gain much, if anything in respect even of Asian nations. Instead, the incident will reinforce what a lot of people around the world have come to expect; namely, that you can't take the Chinese at face value, particularly when there is military involvement. At least the current state of affairs probably does nothing harmful to QUALCOMM and its interest in the Chinese adopting CDMA. Art