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American lawmakers canceled their planned visits to China. The leader of the Christian fundamentalists, the recent presidential candidate Gary Bauer said that not the Americans, but the Chinese should apologize.

However, the tone of public statements of senior officials markedly softened. They said that they were valued by relations with Beijing and would not want to cause them damage. The destroyers left the Chinese shores. Rear Admiral Kuiligli explained that the order of the Pacific commander had no secret intent: “Admiral Blair just thought that it would be reasonable not to let them go too far, because they could be useful in the search and salvation of the Chinese pilot.” The White House spokeswoman Ari Flysher and Richard Bacewer to the meticulous questions of the reporters unanimously answered that intensive negotiations were underway and any information leak could destroy the painstaking efforts of diplomats.

Subtle setting

It is no longer a secret that on April 4, President Bush called a meeting of his administration members responsible for issues of foreign policy and national security in the Oval Cabinet, and said to them: “We must find a way out of the situation.” From this moment, it began that on diplomatic jargon it is called "thin tuning." The meeting decided that Colin Powell should once again regret in connection with the death of the Chinese pilot. The Secretary of State did this in the morning. In response, asking him not to call himself named Chinese diplomat, accredited in Washington, said that Powell’s statement was “a step in the right direction”. American politicians and press secretaries turned into thin stylists. The newspapers wrote that Bush “demanded” to free the crew, but he did not demand, but only said that “it was time for people to return home.” The Bucker avoided calling them hostages and that more prisoners of war and only a few days later found an acceptable definition: Detainees - “forcibly retained”. The journalist who asked how forcibly retained differs from the hostages, he sent to the explanatory dictionary. Kuigigli was offended by the definition of a “spy plane”. “In my understanding,“ spying ”means“ engaging in espionage, ”he explained the difference. - And this is not at all what we are talking about here. It was an open, ordinary observation and intelligence mission, similar to which are carried out on a regular basis by various countries, including the United States. However, it was performed in international airspace according to international rules. And expressions such as “spy”, “spy aircraft”, “24 spies on board” and others just do not reflect the actual side of the matter. ” The Chinese passion for the ritual is well known. The Chinese ceremonies once greatly complicated the task of the ambassadors of Muscovy in China from them demanded that the emperor give great honors than those that they rendered to the king. In this case, it was precisely about finding a ritual formula that would satisfy both sides. What looked from the side of the American-Chinese War of Words was actually a search for a solution to the problem from which there was simply no other way out of the crew returning.

Washington already apologized two years ago in connection with an erroneous bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. He did this in February this year after the random flooding of the American submarine of the Japanese schooner "Echima Maru" near Hawaii. But both of these cases, American experts had the full opportunity to find out the true causes of the incident. This time, the employees of the US Embassy managed to achieve permission only for a few brief meetings with pilots, during which diplomats avoided questions about what had happened, fearing that the careless answers of the crew may affect the fate of the pilots. But a few days later the atmosphere suddenly grew again. Bush said that the situation is in the "dead point" from which the Chinese side should withdraw it. At this moment, the philological discussion of diplomats came to a dead end. Speaks, refusing to use the word Apology in the Epistle, the Americans eventually proposed a more significant Sorry. The Chinese, reasoning that they will be able to interpret it in the right sense, agreed, demanding that Sorry add Very and use the expression twice. The Americans agreed after grave thoughts. In Russian, the nuances of the American ambassador look something like this: either the president and Secretary of State “very regret” due to the death of the Chinese pilot, or they bring “deep apologies”. But Praier presented his Chinese letter to Minister Tan in a Chinese translation, in which there were hieroglyphs, denoting "deep regret". When the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Sun Yuisi retold the message in his own words, he used another term that can be understood as “deep apologies”.

About hours after official reports on the agreement reached, the Boeing-737 Pentagon Continental Micronesia landed on the island of Hainan. Having taken on board the crew of the ER-Szu, the airliner headed for the guam, from where they were taken to Hawaii. President Bush renewed from North Carolina and, lunch in the circle of advisers on board the presidential aircraft, listened to the direct radio report of CNN about the departure of Boeing. Having made sure that the crew was completely security, the president turned to his National Security Assistant Condolisian Rice Rice with the words: “You did your job perfectly. Congratulations. Our team did not allow the incident to develop into a crisis. ”