Eleven days on Hainan, Part II

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Good evening. In Part II of our oral history series on the April 2001 Hainan spy plane crisis, The Wire China is today publishing eight accounts of the incident from participants including Dennis Wilder, then the CIA’s China Division Chief (Directorate of Intelligence); U.S. diplomats Marc Grossman, Jim Moriarty and Ted Gong; and EP-3 crew members Jeremy Crandall and Nick Mellos.On April 5, 2001 the crisis was entering its fourth day and it would be another week before China would agree to release the 24-member crew after formally receiving Ambassador Joseph Prueher’s “two sorries” letter. As Wilder tells Eliot Chen in this week’s cover story: “Nobody wanted to use the words ‘hostage situation’, but that was at the back of people’s minds”.If any other participants would like to share their oral or written memories of the crisis for a possible follow-up to this series, please contact noah.berman@thewire.media, rachel.cheung@thewire.media, savannah.billman@thewire.media, eliot@thewire.media or tom.mitchell@thewire.media.In this week’s Wire China podcast, editor Andrew Peaple and reporter Noah Berman discuss his reporting on the Chinese solar industry’s soaring sales to Africa. But the continent’s yawning trade deficit with China could dampen the excitement.Other items in this week’s issue:Can China’s solar industry finally close Africa’s electricity gap? ; Big Pharma’s love affair with China; a Q&A with journalist and author Michael Luo; and an ill-timed decline in China’s lending to poor countries.If you’re not already a paid subscriber to The Wire, please sign up here.Subsc…