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The bell that should have rung is the one that showed you the complete inapplicability of this 'example'. The situations are completely different.
Do some research first before saying who needs better examples. The USS Vincennes was in Iranian territorial waters at the time it shot down the airliner. The USS Impeccable, like the EP-3, came dangerously close within Chinese territorial waters before being "intercepted". Iran Air 655 was also an accident that happened because of the intruder entering another country's sovereign waters.
Yes. He had no authorization from higher leadership.
He had radio contact with the ground all the time. Those two J-8s didn't simply take off because two guys wanted some Maverick experience.
Never claimed to be.
Air Force components all belong in one big family that work in cooperation to carry out a mission.
The question is why did Wang Wei collided with the much larger aircraft? The ridiculous defense/argument is that he was trying to 'defend' China. Defend against what threat? And if there was a legitimate cause for 'defense', then why a collision? Why not a weapons shot? But since he was not authorized 'weapons free', that made his flying so close to the much larger aircraft foolish and possibly incompetent because he did not know of the wake turbulence larger aircrafts can create.
He was defending against the threat of American spy aircraft flying close to the Hainan submarine base. If Chinese Y-8 spy aircraft flew within 70 miles of Norfolk, Virgina, I have no doubt pilots will be scrambling. There is no "legitimate cause" related to the collision because the collision was an accident (search up "accident" if you don't still understand).
Canadian CF-18s fly alongside Tu-95s during interception all the time. Did they ever fire any weapons?
The American aircraft was already outside of China's territorial airspace.
Anything outside 70 miles from US coast is also "international airspace" but they still shoot down anything that comes within 200 miles. The EP-3 also happens to be a spyplane heading in the direction of Hainan submarine base. If you are smart enough to register the presence of a spyplane heading towards Chinese territory and a nearby submarine base, perhaps you would come to the conclusion that somehow these two are related?
Ridiculous...The Gulf Wars were legitimate combat actions. Wang Wei's flying were under peace time between two powers.
Alright, so if you claim that these were "legitimate" flying by the EP-3, then the J-8 flight was also legitimate since they were both in "international airspace".
Conflict always sprouts from peace time, in case you haven't noticed. That's why "conflict" and "peace" are two different words.
And there are foolish pilots. Accept that.
Try correctly defining one before talking about acceptance.