I was wondering when you'd get around to replying,
Multani...
I find it interesting that most people here think that it's the accident was China's fault.
Let me see if I can dissect this opinon, or at least list why I think that opinion is unjustified....
a.) It was an accident. That implies that it's not really anyone's fault. Accidents happen....
Sorry, even in an accident, someone CAUSES the accident. It might be unintentional, but that person is still at fault.
b.) If you still imply the accident was China's fault, the Chinese government has openly announced that it can prove the accident was the result of the EP-3 turning and crashing into the F-1. No one at the press release openly objected...No ONE.
Can prove? So have they done it? I've read that the US has released a minute-by-minute transcript of what happened and China hasn't...
c.) I stated this earlier...That simply making a mayday call doesn't guarentee you have the right to land on their soil. The country you intend to land on has to approve of the landing...
And I asked where did you get this information?
d.) China insists that the U.S. didn't make any mayday calls. Many people here believe they did based on a press release. I find it funny that they think the pilots on the plane are not capable of lying...
I find it funny you'd believe China is not capable of lying...
e.) Bush doesn't start insisting it's China's fault until AFTER the pilots are released...
Um, yeah, because we want our PEOPLE back. Once they're back, then we can play hardball (which is what China was doing all along)
Of course many of you will disagree with me on these issues relying on source questions to invalidate my observations...
But let's face it. China is a civilized country. Do you truly believe that if the plane did make the claimed 15 mayday calls that the Chinese would deny them landing? What good would it do China to reject the landing of a crippled U.S. aircraft...
"Civilized" country? It probably is, but since you raised the point, according to what? What's the definition of civilized?
I can think of one reason: hoping the plane would crash and remove all witnesses that in fact, it WAS China's fault in the collision...
And there is another reason I don't particulary trust U.S. sources.
So what sources DO you trust?
During the crisis, I would listen to CNN, NSBC, and a variety of other news channels excessively.
Some of the things I heard were outright lies in my opinion...and were excuse the term Bull-S***.
Which were.... ????
And also, these supposedly objective reporters, and debators, always spoke on the issue with a sense of arrogance as if the U.S. was superior to China, and a treating CHina like an adult would treat a child. So you can imagine, I have a very good reason not to trust the U.S. media on international issues. In addition, there was the repeated mention of human rights, and things related to it. However, it was said with the sense as if the U.S DIDN't have any human rights problems herself.
That's probably true, I won't disagree although I haven't seen any of that coverage. I WILL daresay that China has the exact attitude towards the US, and it's not even FREE SPEECH.
And then there is the Falun Gong fiasco...oh yes..this is the cake...
Many people see it as a crackdown on religion. I know what the Falun Gong is. It's not religion...it's almost cult like, and one of my aunts nearly died to it...so I see and know Falun Gong is NOT a religion...
Don't know much about this.
And I don't think I need to mention Camp David in Waco...from what I hear, tanks were used....
Yeah, tanks were used at T. Square.
Newsweek even went so far as to say that the UN condemned China... How is that possible?! For the UN to do anything means that all the standing members have to approve...ANd I know China and Russia wouldn't approve.
Russia might. And a condemnation might just need a 2/3 vote or a simple majority.
Of course, a senator once said that the UN is the instrument of U.S. foreign policy...more like a puppet of the U.S. Oh, and I can go on and on and on about how the U.S. has time after time, violated international law, commited atrocites...
Why don't we also go on about China?
There...I'm calm now. I hope my outrage has shatter any illusions that the U.S. is always right, that the U.S. is always perfect....
I've never claimed it was ALWAYS right and ALWAYS perfect. However, I will venture to say that because of the free press and the openess of the media, it is more inclined to give BOTH sides of a story than China.
Interesting story I read today in Sunday Washington Post how in 1999 China put to death 1,263 people while Amnesty International maintains the figure is higher and China sentences more people to death than any other country in the world.
Also how the top leaders differed in the handling of T. Square and one was made a scapegoat for Zhao, the Communist chief at the time and was jailed SOLELY for his political beliefs, the only senior Party member since 1976 at the end of the Cultural Revolution...