Vanderbilt Television News Archive

(Pentagon: Wolf Blitzer) The spy plane standoff between the United States and China after the emergency landing on Hainan, China, of a EP-3 surveillance plane following a collision with a Chinese jet featured. [President BUSH - says the Chinese must allow us access.] [US ambassador to China Joseph PREUTER - comments on the immunity preventing China from boarding the plane.]

(White House: John King) The response of the Bush administration to the standoff reviewed. [BUSH - says China's response is not standard diplomatic practice; indicates the Chinese must allow us contact with the airmen and return our plane.] China's concerns about United States sales of technology to Taiwan and the recent defection of an army colonel to the United States noted. [Brookings Institution Bates GILL - cites the wariness on both sides.] The reasons for the United States withdrawal of warships from the region discussed.

(Pentagon: Wolf Blitzer) Report introduced.

(Beijing: Rebecca MacKinnon) The position of the Chinese government that the United States is responsible for the collision of the two planes reviewed.

(Pentagon: Wolf Blitzer) Report introduced.

(Whidbey Island, WA: Lilian Kim) The reaction at Whidbey Island, WA, naval air station, home base for the EP-3s, featured; scenes shown of yellow ribbons on trees commemorating the 24 people on board the plane that landed in Hainan.