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MAIL CALL.
A Difficult Dance With Beijing
Our April 16 cover story on U.S.-China relations elicited a wide range of heated opinions and emotions from numerous readers. Most took the United States to task: "China has a right to protect its secrets," insisted one. "America is a bully," accused another. Others blamed the Bush administration: "It provokes the Chinese," wrote one respondent, while another added, "They invent an imaginary enemy to further their own agenda." A Chinese reader simply declared, "The PRC, the PLA and Wang Wei have our total support."
A Collision With China
You are less than fair to China in your coverage of the spy-plane episode ("After the Showdown," SPECIAL REPORT, April 16). China has as much right as any other country to protect its secrets. American insistence on its "right" to conduct snooping operations stinks of neoimperialistic arrogance. Besides, the U.S. version of events can't be taken too seriously by those who remember the "mistaken" bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, the bombing of an air-raid shelter in Baghdad and of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. And, we haven't forgotten the Ehime Maru incident--did the Japanese trawler ram the submarine?
Biswapriya Purkayastha
Shillong, India
Your coverage of the conflict between the United States and China seems to have circumvented a crucial ethical point. The collision meant that the United States was caught in the act of spying. Beijing's harassment of U.S. spy planes and the detention of the EP-3E crew is hardly surprising. How would the States have reacted if the roles had been reversed? Should the United States assume the right to operate reconnaissance activities anywhere it pleases?
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