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• BBC / News / In Depth 
• "Spy Plane Row."
• "US-China Tension."

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• CNN's in depth "U.S.-China Collision: A diplomatic solution" -CNN 

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• US EP-3E Aries SIGINT aircraft description - Janes 

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• Chinese J-8 fighter aircraft description - Janes 



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20010413
• "Rightwing US policy makes China more conservative too" -The Guardian/China 

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20010412
• "US 'sorry' heard in Beijing as an apology." - Semantics of a 'Sorry' dissected. ... "US Secretary of State Colin Powell's "sorry," issued Sunday, was initially interpreted as mild "regret" and not the level of apology China sought. There are four basic degrees of apology in Chinese. But by yesterday, the influential Beijing paper translated America's top diplomat's words as bao qian - a second-level apology officially acknowledged for the first time." -By Robert Marquand  -CSMonitor

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20010411
• "US letter of regret: Full text" -BBC 

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US-China Standoff - Views from Outside America
China Daily
http://www.chinadaily.net/
People's Daily
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/home.html
China Radio International [RealPlayer]
http://webcri.cri.com.cn:8000/news/english.html
Shanghai Daily
http://english.eastday.com/
China Post (Taiwan)
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/
Central News Agency (Taiwan)
http://210.71.181.201/index-e.html
China Times (Taiwan)
http://www.chinatimes.com.tw/english/english.htm
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
http://www.scmp.com/
RTHK [RealPlayer] (Hong Kong)
http://www.rthk.org.hk/
Inside China Today (Hong Kong)
http://www.insidechina.com/
Spy Plane Row -- BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/
asia_pacific/2001/spy_plane_row/
Special Reports : China -- The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/
"Signs of possible end to the China-US standoff" -- Irish Times
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/0406/wor1.htm
"US regret OK, but not enough: China" -- Times of India
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/06worl2.htm
"China and US move to cool spy plane stand-off" -- Syndey Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0104/07/world/world3.html
Foreign Media Reaction -- US State Department
http://usinfo.state.gov/admin/005/wwwh1a04.html
Scout readers may well be tiring of this story altogether, but we thought many might be interested in coverage of the US-China standoff over the airplane collision and American crew from non-US media sources. These newspapers and radio services offer a range of views and interpretations of the events since last Sunday's accident and their impact on international diplomacy, US-China relations, and the region. All sites listed offer content in English. [MD]