Special extracts. Domineering Action and Hegemonic Logic: Commentary On April 1, a US military reconnaissance plane bumped a Chinese military plane over the exclusive economic zone in the coast of China's Hainan <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/province/hainan.html> Island, and flew into China's territorial airspace and landed in the Lingshui Airport of Hainan without permission. This is a serious incident of violating international law and infringing upon China's sovereignty and territorial airspace. The US government should have explained and apologized to the Chinese government and assumed full responsibility for this. However, instead of doing so, the US side wantonly whipped up opinion, charging that China was ignorant of air rules and failed to act in accordance with international law, and what not. This conforms exactly to the Chinese saying, "The guilty party files the suit first." This behavior of the US side represents a new performance it staged in explaining its hegemonic conduct with domineering logic. The US censure of China and its self-justification are untenable. The first so-called legal basis put forward by the United States <http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/usa.html> is the principle of so-called over-flight freedom. According to its logic, the responsibility for the plane collision incident rests with Chinese military airplanes which conducted tracing surveillance of the US plane. This remark is very much like referring to a robber who made trouble at the door of another person's home and yet forbid the house-owner to meddle in the matter. According to the UN Convention on Law of the Sea, the premise of foreign airplanes' freedom right of flying over the exclusive economic zone is that they must abide by the law of the coastal countries and the rules of international law, they must not engage in activities that endanger the sovereignty, security and national interest of a coastal country. However, US military airplanes have repeatedly haunted China's offshore sky to carry out reconnaissance flights in provocation against China's sovereignty and bumped a Chinese plane on a tracing surveillance mission. The act of the US side has violated the UN Convention on Law of the Sea and jeopardized China's security and national interest. It is exactly the United States that has violated the international principle on "over-flight freedom". After the occurrence of the incident, although the Chinese side adopted a restraint attitude and made proper arrangements for US fliers, the US side, however, after the occurrence of the incident, made a big fuss about the "sovereign status" of the US plane and even declared in a threatening tone that the US plane belonged to US national property and should enjoy sovereignty immunity and so on and so forth. It was the US reconnaissance plane which, after the occurrence of the incident, arbitrarily intruded into China's territorial airspace without applying to nor informing China of the incident in disregard of China's sovereignty. The international law which should be jointly observed by various countries around the world has become a private weapon used by the Americans to attack others and protect themselves. The incident in which the US military reconnaissance plane crashed Chinese military plane has given full expression to the domineering act of the United States. The fact that US military reconnaissance plane bumped the Chinese military plane and infringed upon China's sovereignty over its territorial airspace is an event of serious violation of international law, no justification and censure made by the United States can change this fact. The Chinese people are a justice-upholding people. The Chinese people have the right to know the answers to these questions: Why has the US side frequently sent out its military reconnaissance aircraft to carry out activities in China's offshore areas? Why did the US plane suddenly turn around in violation of the rules of operation and thus wrecked Chinese plane? Why did the US plane intrude into Chinese territorial airspace and land in a Chinese airport without permission? We sternly warn the US side that it should squarely face the fact, assume responsibility, and not absolve its domineering action with its hegemonic logic. **** Wife of Missing Chinese Pilot Accuses US of Indifference to Life Yuan Guoqin, wife of the missing Chinese pilot Wang Wei Wednesday accused the US side of being indifferent to the life of her husband. In an interview with Xinhua, Yuan said that the US side should be held responsible for the missing of her husband, the pilot of the fighter jet rammed and damaged by a US surveillance plane on April 1. Ruan blamed the spy plane for its intrusion into Chinese airspace and violation of Chinese sovereignty. Ruan also slammed the US government for lack of conscience. "In my eyes, my husband's life is precious than anything else," said the woman, who is in a hospital because of bad health compounded by deep sorrow. With tears screaming down her face, Ruan said she and her six- year-old son are waiting for the return of Wang Wei. Ruan and Wang, both from Huzhou city, east China's Zhejiang <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/province/Zhejiang.html> Province, got married in 1992. Ruan works at a navy airport. Ruan expressed her thanks to the Chinese government and the people from all walks of life for the utmost rescue efforts and their concern about her husband's life. Chinese People Concerned Over Missing Pilot The Chinese people are very much concerned about the missing pilot of the fighter jet rammed and damaged by a US military surveillance plane Sunday morning. Scores of citizens in Huzhou City in east China's Zhejiang Province, hometown of Wang Wei, the missing pilot, went Wednesday to Wang's home to comfort his family members, indignant over the U. S. intrusion into China 's airspace. Wang was born in 1968, and entered a flying school after high school. In his hometown, Wang Lin, his elder sister, is now looking after their aged retired parents. Local government leaders visited the parents, promising that the authorities would make every effort to find their son as soon as possible. Wang Min, the missing pilot's father, believed that the central government would handle the incident properly, saying that the family are eagerly waiting to know the whereabouts of Wang Wei. Up to the small hours of Wednesday morning, China had sent a total of 48 planes and 29 seagoing vessels in search of the missing pilot. Missing Pilot yet to Be Found China is still striving to locate the whereabouts of the missing Chinese pilot Wang Wei, but with no results. Up to now, over 50 sorties of planes and 31 navy vessels have been dispatched to the water areas where the collision occurred, and the searching area has been expanding. According to soldiers with the rescuing team, the wind, waves and ocean currents may have washed the pilot away from the site of the incident, which will add more difficulties to the rescuing efforts. They are also worrying whether the pilot could survive the 2- meter high waves and the burning sunshine so many hours after the incident. However, they are determined to continue their all-out efforts with every possible means, scanning every inch of the sea surface in hope of finding the pilot at the earliest moment. **** China, Russia Discuss Strategic Stability China and Russia <http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/russia.html> reached a broad consensus Wednesday on issues related to strategic stability, including missile defense, disarmament and arms control, according to the Foreign Ministry <http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/> . During consultations on strategic stability, China's Deputy Foreign Minister Zhang Deguang and his Russian counterpart G. Mamedov reiterated both sides' opposition to the deployment of the NMD system, which is prohibited by the ABM Treaty, and the development of the TMD system of a military bloc nature for the Asia-Pacific region. They pointed out that the ABM Treaty must be safeguarded, strengthened and complied with, and they stressed the need to do everything possible to maintain the regional and global strategic balance and stability. Both sides agreed that START II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II) should go into force as soon as possible, and that START I should be strictly complied with. They also agreed that Russia and the United States <http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/usa.html> should start talks on a range of issues concerning the further massive reduction of offensive strategic weaponry. The two sides expressed readiness to continue their close consultations and cooperation with a view to strengthening strategic stability and international security. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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