Chapter 1030: Bickering

After arriving at Boss Zhu's place, Fan Wubing met several committee members and standing committee members. It was obvious that everyone was in a state of emergency again.

According to information provided by Boss Zhu, around 3 p.m., six hours after the collision, the U.S. Army Pacific Headquarters issued a brief statement on its website to make the collision known to the world. The statement asked the Chinese government to follow international practices to maintain the integrity of the aircraft, ensure the safety of the crew, and provide facilities for the immediate return of the aircraft and crew to the United States. It made no mention of the crash of the Chinese plane after being hit and the disappearance of the personnel.

The U.S. EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft was the most advanced electronic reconnaissance aircraft in the world at the time and the only land-based signal intelligence reconnaissance aircraft of the U.S. Navy. The aircraft was equipped with cutting-edge electronic reconnaissance equipment, including the world's most advanced automatic voice recognition. system. Now that such an intelligence and reconnaissance aircraft has fallen into the hands of the Chinese, the United States naturally feels guilty and anxious.

In response to the unreasonable attitude of the United States, China has expressed its solemn position. In an official statement, it warned the United States to face the facts, take responsibility, and apologize to China.

At the same time, it pointedly pointed out that the behavior of the US reconnaissance aircraft violated the relevant provisions of international law and Chinese law, and constituted an infringement of China's sovereignty and airspace. Regardless of whether it is based on international law or Chinese domestic law, China has the right to investigate aircraft that break into Chinese airspace and land at Chinese airports without permission.

The Chinese government also strongly urges the U.S. to take China's solemn representations and legitimate demands seriously and provide an explanation to the Chinese government and people as soon as possible for the U.S. plane that crashed a Chinese plane and violated China's sovereignty and airspace.

As a result, the world's attention is once again focused on China and the United States.

"The reaction of the Americans is basically as you expected." Boss Zhu said to Fan Wubing, "But our people have successfully occupied the plane. According to the news we just received, the crew has now been controlled. "

"Where are the crew now?" Fan Wubing asked.

"Well, it seems that he was temporarily locked up in the cafeteria, and there is no other place to use -" a military general next to him answered on his behalf.

"Are they locked up together?" Fan Wubing asked.

"Yes." The other party replied immediately.

Fan Wubing immediately suggested, "It's better to lock them up separately to prevent the other party from colluding with the confession. This will be detrimental to our collection of evidence in the future. Lock them up separately, and then mentally intimidate them, make a record, and then put them in jail." Their audio and video materials were distributed via the Internet to enhance our negotiating leverage.”

After hearing this, Boss Zhu immediately said, "Follow this. Mr. Fan's opinion is very good. We can't think about it in such detail at the moment. These are all loopholes!"

Before long,

A more specific report was sent over.

The pilots of the US military EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft had destroyed the flight computer, tactical computer, hard drive and other important equipment before the aircraft made an emergency landing at the Hainan base. They used hammers to destroy the onboard computer device and hard drive, and even Coffee was poured onto disk drives and computers to prevent the Chinese from using these devices to obtain sensitive information about the EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft.

But Americans are still very nervous at this point, because most anti-tampering experts believe that adversaries interested in reverse engineering will always be able to find a way to crack it eventually.

Tamper resistance is basically a game of cat and mouse, with each party learning from the other's mistakes. Both software and hardware can use tamper resistance technology. Sometimes the best tamper resistance method is to use it on both software and hardware.

Therefore, they repeatedly made representations to China, demanding the release of U.S. reconnaissance aircraft as soon as possible, and at the same time dispatched three aircraft carrier formations to approach the South China Sea in an attempt to put pressure on China.

China was very angry about this and responded immediately.

An hour later, the U.S. Pentagon nervously discovered that two more Chinese nuclear submarines parked in the port were missing. Obviously, this was also a manifestation of China's strong dissatisfaction with the U.S. government's stance on the collision incident.

Probably George W. Bush had never encountered such a thing before, and he was at a loss for a while.

Domestic actions were also very rapid, especially after our personnel took control of the US military reconnaissance aircraft in time, they sent experts to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the damage to the aircraft. Of course, this assessment contained more content.

For example, in order to ensure the absolute safety of Chinese military bases and the maximum protection of U.S. military property, China has the right to promptly dispose of components that China considers to be dangerous goods that pose safety risks.

In this way, some equipment on the aircraft that was suspected to be risky was disassembled and sent for emergency treatment.

The next day, the U.S. Ambassador to China Prich led several diplomats from the U.S. Embassy in China to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for formal negotiations.

Prih was born in the military. Before serving as ambassador to China, he was the commander of the U.S. Pacific Headquarters and an admiral. He was appointed ambassador to China by President Clinton the year before last. He is 60 years old this year. He served in the Navy for 35 years as a pilot and was able to fly more than 50 different types of naval aircraft. He has rich flying experience. Public opinion said that he is calm, capable, pragmatic and good at grasping priorities.

Usually, when meeting in diplomatic occasions, people always shake hands and exchange a few pleasantries before getting down to business, so that both sides can exchange views in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. But the situation was different this time. Both sides understood each other tacitly and looked very serious when they met.

As soon as Prueher sat down, the Chinese side went straight to the point and told him that China and the United States had held two emergency meetings after the collision, and today China would make China's solemn position on the collision more in-depth and comprehensive to the United States.

China said that the United States should bear full responsibility for this incident. The behavior of the US aircraft violated the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and undermined the consensus reached by China and the United States in May last year on avoiding dangerous military operations at sea. This incident was entirely caused by the United States' mistakes, and the United States should bear full responsibility and apologize.

After the incident, China has always adopted a calm, restrained and responsible attitude to deal with it, and does not want to see the overall situation of Sino-US relations affected and damaged. China also properly accommodated the US crew members out of humanitarian considerations and arranged for the US embassy and consulate staff in China to meet with the US crew members.

But the US side has taken the opposite attitude and approach. It is clear that the US reconnaissance aircraft violated international flight rules, crashed the Chinese military aircraft, and illegally entered Chinese airspace and landed at the Chinese airport, which constituted a serious violation of China's sovereignty and territory and threatened China's national security. The US side not only did not respect the facts and take responsibility, but instead acted in a domineering manner, made specious arguments, confused right and wrong, and repeatedly made unreasonable accusations against China, which is a mistake on top of a mistake.

Finally, China said that if it wants to release the people, the US side must apologize first. China attaches great importance to Sino-US relations and hopes to see the collision incident properly resolved as soon as possible. If the US side admits its mistake and apologizes to China, China can consider arranging for the US crew to leave China as soon as possible. The US side must fully recognize the seriousness of the collision incident and stop doing anything that may escalate and complicate the situation. China does not want to see the situation escalate, but if the US side insists on escalating the situation, China will definitely fight to the end. The US should immediately stop its reconnaissance activities along the Chinese coast, take China's repeated representations seriously, take the Chinese people's solemn demands seriously, properly handle the matter with a responsible attitude, and take effective measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again.

After listening carefully to the Chinese representative, Prueher said in a serious tone that President Bush and Secretary of State Powell also hoped that the issue could be properly resolved as soon as possible to avoid damage to US-China relations. He also argued that the accident occurred in international airspace, and although the US plane did enter Chinese airspace later, it did send a distress signal to China and request to land before landing. He even said that based on his many years of flying experience, it was difficult to agree with China's statement on the cause of the collision, and he could not take responsibility and apologize to China at present.

He also said that the US side urgently hopes that China will allow US personnel to visit the US crew again, and requires China to release the detained US crew as soon as possible and hand over the US plane to the US as soon as possible.

China severely refuted Prueher's defense. This incident is not a technical issue in essence, but a serious political and diplomatic issue between China and the United States. It is wrong to lead the solution of this issue to a simple technical debate. The crew members of the US plane involved in the accident were military personnel who illegally entered China. According to international law and Chinese law, China has every right to investigate them.

Two years ago, the United States bombed the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and this time it crashed a Chinese military plane. For many years, it has been the United States that has continuously sent aircraft to the Chinese coast for military reconnaissance activities, while China has never sent any aircraft to the west coast or east coast of the United States for reconnaissance.

The Chinese representative emphasized that our attitude towards the above-mentioned actions of the United States is one is opposition, and the other is fearlessness. Facts over the years have proved that the more pressure the United States exerts, the more it will arouse the indignation of the Chinese people. The Chinese representative asked Prueher to report the above-mentioned negotiations and the situation he learned on the ground in China to Washington truthfully, and hoped that he would play a constructive role in resolving this issue.

U.S. Ambassador to China Prueher saw that the matter could not be handled simply. He thought that unless the White House came forward and Bush Jr. made a statement, the matter would never be resolved. He could only serve as a mouthpiece but not a decisive role. So he said that he would report China's demands in full to the U.S. government so that the White House could make the correct judgment.