>On April 1, 2001, a US Air Force EP-3E surveillance aircraft collided with a Chinese F-8 fighter jet over Hainan Island, off the coast of China. The EP-3E crew were forced to make an emergency landing on the island, where the Chinese held them prisoner for ten days until the Bush Administration were able to negotiate their release. The pilot of the F-8, Wang Wei, was killed in the mishap. China returned the plane to the US three weeks later in pieces.[2]
In 1974, China illegally occupy Paracel Island
>>18488802the foreign policy -head types all praised Bush's diplomatic handling of this incident though my main memory of it was my mom listening to talk radio guys panicking that it would start World War III with China.
>>18488889dilate
>>18489082Go joined 41%, wumao troon
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>>18489039>talk radio hosts need to keep people listening with sensationalized reporting...
>>18488802they took the plane apart to learn any secret stuff they could find and only then gave it back
>>18488802it was real
>>18489123>NOOOO YOU HAVE TO GIVE BACK MY SECRET SPY PLANE EVEN AFTER IT FLEW INTO YOUR TERRITORY, CRASHED INTO YOUR PLANE, AND KILLED ONE OF YOUR MEN
>>18489113>Armatard anon migrated to /his/yikes lmao
>>18489123The crew destroyed the operating manuals for the aircraft per standard procedure.
18490280can someone translate this from schizo to English?
