So will the Chinese government foot the bill in this search effort or are they just going to sit back and enjoy the moment as the victims families blame every non-chinese government or organization for the lack of results in this search?
I haven't seen any or much criticism of Australia's efforts, or for that matter Vietnam, India who although the last two got tardy with Malaysia, who could blame them.
Apart from the number of Chinese being involved, the other MAJOR reason for China's huge response is because they got whipped badly a few years back for the tardy Chinese response to helping out a neighbour when every other country in the world put all hands to the grind stone !
They (the Chinese) didn't like it and were determined to make sure that type of criticism didn't happen again.
Re costs, remember the military costs are incurred whether they are searching for the aircraft or doing normal flying duties or sitting on the flight line.