China's Foreign Ministry showed a computer generated reconstruction of the April 1 collision between a U.S. EP-3 spy plane and a Chinese F-8 fighter plane, which it said supports China's theory that the U.S. side was to blame. The China-U.S. talks on the spy plane incident ended on a positive note on Thursday with the U.S. side calling them 'very productive. (Chinese Foreign Ministry via Reuters )
A U.S. F-14 Tomcat jet fighter flies near the wing of a Chinese military plane during a close encounter near China last year in this video image released by the Chinese Foreign Ministry April 19, 2001. In a tit-for-tat reply to U.S. images and comments blaming China for the April 1 collision, the Foreign Ministry showed the video of an encounter between Chinese and U.S. fighters. (Chinese Foreign Ministry via Reuters)