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Pooh Bear wrote:


The Cold War is over - or did someone forget to mention it to you ?

Somebody needs to tell that to the USN VQ-1 EP-3 crew who were held
prisoner by the Chinese military several days before being allowed to
even speak with the outside world.

Compare that to Gary Powers' treatment if you want to make a Cold War
comparison.

If the USA chooses to spy on the PRC, I'm unsurprised that the PRC wishes
to
try
and deter such action. I would be interested to see the reaction of the
USA
to
Chinese spy planes off its shores !

The number of Chinese apologists spouting this BS sickening.

I'm sorry that you are sickened by impartial comment.

I see, so you would have no problem with a ROK fighter intercepting a
Chinese spy plane in international airspace; causing serious damage to
it; ignoring all radio calls on international distress frequencies
requesting an emergency landing in Korea (closest field); making the
crew exit the plane at gun point; holding the crew incommunicado with
their country and the rest of the world; and then proceeding to examine
in detail the proprietary systems in that aircraft?


Chinese ELINT aircraft have plaid spook on the Koreans and Japanese for
years. They are intercepted by those countries' assets as well as those
of our USAF and USN.

Sure, I don't doubt it.


Do you doubt those countries don't recklessly intercept PRC spook planes
and don't make a habit of taking the crew of other "Most Favored" tading
nations prisoner?



Would Japan be justified to recklessly intercept their PRC spy planes in
international airspace and then take the crew prisoner when they are
forced to land as a consequence of an incompetently flown intercept?

If such a thing happened I'm sure that they crew would be 'invited' to
explain
what happened. I doubt that this would happen in public. You can choose
whether
that constitutes holding someone prisoner.


If in the course of this "invitation" they were denied any contact with
the outside world and their own country for several days....then they
were prisoners.


Unless the crew were carrying
passports
( as per civilian flights ) , I'm sure that there would be at the very
minimum
immigration procedures to deal with.


"Immigration procedures" which require the crew to be held without being
allowed contact with the outside world for several days?




--Mike