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(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.
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(Pentagon: Wolf Blitzer) Interview held with United States Pacific Command Admiral Dennis Blair about United States relations with China in light of the collision of an American EP-3 with a Chinese jet. [In Honolulu, Hawaii, BLAIR - cites the last communication with the plane's crew; comments on the reports on whether Chinese have boarded the plane and on the location of the plane's crew; comments on rights to be in the air space over international water.]
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(Pentagon: Wolf Blitzer) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Patty Davis) The United States spy technology available on the United States EP-3 surveillance plane that landed in Hainan, China, after a collision with a Chinese fighter jet examined; details given about the eavesdropping devices on the plane that can unscramble military code. [Stratfor.com military analyst Bryan BENDER - says China could learn a lot from the plane's high- tech gear.] [Center for Security Policy Frank GAFFNEY - says the data could be destroyed.]
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(Pentagon: Wolf Blitzer) Fire-fights between Israelis and Palestinians on the West Bank reported; scenes shown.
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(Pentagon: Wolf Blitzer) Senate passage of the landmark campaign finance reform bill sponsored by Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold reported.
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