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Tue. May 08, 2001
Time for Fireworks!
China says U.S. spy plane cannot fly home – According to Foreign Ministry SpokesCommie Sun Yuxi, ” ’The Chinese side has several times stated clearly in relevant Sino-U.S. negotiations that it is impossible for the U.S. EP-3 plane to fly back to U.S. from Hainan Island,’ Sun was quoted as saying, without saying why. The United States should adopt a practical and constructive attitude on the treatment of the U.S. plane, he added.”
It’s like negotiating with a mugger in a dark alley for your own wallet. I suggest we agree with the Chinese, and inform them we’ve decided to honor them with a display of one of their oldest and earliest traditions: fireworks. Tell them that at midnight there will be a $1.2 million pyrotechnic display (approximate cost of the one Tomahawk cruise missile it would take to eliminate whatever little remains of that plane).
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