A Saudi Arabia newspaper has criticized the US for its spy plane's collision with a Chinese fighter, noting that US plane was conducting the "wrong" spy activities on China.
The Arabic News said in an editorial yesterday that the US surveillance plane's bumping into a Chinese fighter off China's Hainan Island has clearly proved the fact that the US is conducting military surveillance activities on China.
The so-called "allegation" and "serious warning" made by the US government and the military can only "add too much noise" to this incident, the newspaper said.
Obviously, for years US military surveillance planes have been making suspicious flights close to China's border.
The fighters sent to track the US spy plane is an act in China's national interests, the paper quoted as saying Johnathan, director of the Research Center of Contemporary China in Australia's Canberra National University.
The paper also expressed the hope that China and US will settle the collision question by reasonable means and by taking the overall situation into account.
(People's Daily 04/05/2001)
