Airplane collision near Hainan in 2001

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A Lockheed EP-3E

In the aircraft collision near Hainan on April 1, 2001, a US spy plane of the Lockheed P-3 type had to make an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan after colliding with a Chinese fighter . The Chinese jet pilot died and 24 American soldiers were taken into custody. China reacted angrily to the incident, which marked the largest disruption in US-China relations in five years. Only after Secretary of State Colin Powell was able to calm the situation down, and after an apology from America , which followed President Bush's previously unyielding statements , the prisoners were released a few days later. Despite American warnings that it was its own sovereign territory, China confiscated the plane and examined it.

Individual evidence

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  2. Thom Shanker: US Resumes Its Spy Flights Close to China . New York Times website, May 8, 2001, accessed December 16, 2014
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  4. ^ Martin Sieff: Shifting Superpowers: The New and Emerging Relationship between that United States, China, and India . Cato Institute, Washington, DC 2009, ISBN 978-1-9353-0822-5 , p. 127
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