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CIAO Focus, May 2001: US-China Relations | ||
In George Bush's first serious international challenge, the collision of a U.S. Navy spy plane and a Chinese fighter underlined the tensions of post-Cold War relations between the U.S. and China. Offering regrets, but no formal apology, President Bush has taken a hard-line approach. Chinese leaders, who seem eager to put the issue behind them, have resumed diplomatic negotiations on the fate of the 24 U.S. servicemen and their plane. The pilots of the Ameican aircraft landed in Chinese territory after the mid-air collision, which killed the Chinese pilot. Fears that potential mishandling of diplomacy might set back U.S.-China relations has many concerned. This month CIAO explores US-China relations. From CIAO's database: Writing Security in the South China Sea Changes in China's International Strategy and Goals for the New Millenium China in a Changing World: An Interview with Tang Jiaxuan, PRC Minister of Foreign Affairs Policy Impact Panel: China and the United States: Strategic Partners or Adversaries? Continuity and Change in China's Maritime Strategy Outside Links*: US Pacific Command http://www.pacom.mil/ Embassy of the PRC in the United States http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/ Federation of American Scientists: EP-3E Aries II Spy Plane http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/ep-3_aries.htm * Outside links are not maintained. For broken outside links, CIAO recommends the Way Back Machine [http://www.archive.org/]. |