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Old 3rd Apr 2001, 00:23
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Ranger One
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There's a thread on the Mil forum at:

http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/For...ML/001414.html

One thought of mine... ok it's a military item, but nevertheless a US aircraft has been involved in a serious, possibly fatal, incident. How can the US possibly take the position that the EP-3 is 'sovereign US territory', not to be touched? Do they expect that the Chinese will carry out no investigation whatever? Surely they have every right to do so...?

OK tounge slightly in cheek there, this is the Chinese, this is realpolitik, but it's still a bloody arrogant thing to say...
I suppose the Americans promptly returned every aircraft that cold-war era defectors flew to the West, intact and uninspected...!

Yeah, right.

Ranger One