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  • Dec 23, 2014
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Malaysia Airlines flight 370

China demands Malaysia hand over satellite data used to conclude Malaysia Airlines flight crashed

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 25 March, 2014, 4:06pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 25 March, 2014, 4:37pm








Monday night’s e announcement unleashed a storm of sorrow and anger among the families of the plane’s 239 passengers and crew — two-thirds of them Chinese. Family members of the missing passengers have complained bitterly about a lack of reliable information and some say they are not being told the whole truth.




Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Hangsheng told Malaysia’s ambassador to Beijing late Monday that China wanted to know exactly what led Najib to announce that the plane had been lost, a statement on the ministry’s website said.












Several countries had already been moving specialized equipment into the area to prepare for a possible search for the plane and its black boxes, the common name for the cockpit voice and data recorders — needed to help determine what happened to the jetliner.







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The arrogance of the Chinese is unsurpassed. Well, you can not buy culture and civilisation.
The first two words of the title says it....CHINA DEMANDS! It tells you how arrogant they are. Will China ever learn to be polite and civilized?
Wow they wasted no time in trying to benefit their military intelligence knowledge.
So who is actually paying for all this searching? The Chinese? I don't think so, therefore they just should STFU.
Marcus T Anthony
Well they have whipped the Chinese people into a frenzy of hate and now we sit and wait and hope it doesn't get out of control. Not exactly great for stability in the region. And certainly not great for China's image in neighbouring countries.
I'm not saying there is nothing to check in terms of the Malaysian government. Maybe there is. But all these rumours have no basis in fact and are not helping anybody. The hysteria is way out of proportion to the actual event. I'm mostly talking about the general population. I live with three Chinese people and have been listening to the hatred for the past two weeks. We've seen this all before, mostly with the Japanese and Americans.
No, some primitives become civilized by being invaded by superior nations....
Don't worry, it does not belong to Malaysia and they are not getting their grimy hands on it - even the low res version. They only wish that they could....Nevertheless, you are correct in your grandstanding characterization of the mater. Now when Malaysia does not hand it over, the Chinese government can tell their people "see we were fighting for you, but the savages would not give us what we need, so they are anti-China."
another stupid scmp headline. 1) dont think china demanded 2) if they did, they can go fk themselves.
Someone posted "No, some primitives become civilized by being invaded by superior nations...." Wow this chap must a supporter of Japan in World War II or welcome China now being invaded by Switzerland or any other country with higher education or GDP per capita. I guess the chap's a product of communist education ... whipping up cultural revolution frenzy, scary indeed


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