I am sure the US would NOT do what the Chinese are doing if the shoe was on the other foot. The Cinese have insisted that their borders extend some 200 miles into the surrounding ocean - thumbing their nose at the world standard, and insisting they have the right to enforce their rule. They also claim the right to hold and inspect the sovereign property of another country that has been emergency landed on their property. This likewise is contrary to world standard. If they insist on enforcing thier standards, then they obviously do not want to play by the rules the rest of the nations play by.

What if we all sat down to play cards, and when I dealt the poker hand I gave myself 6 cards and insisted that was the way it was going to be because that was the way I always played it? You might not shoot me, but you sure as hell wouldn't play, would you. This is the corner China is painting themselves into ... and right now the US is deciding whether or not we want to play.

We'll get our people back, eventually. But the aircraft and all its secret technology is gone. And now the world can see just how truthful the Chinese are when they claim that they never bought or stole the weapons secrets, that they simply developed them on their own.