1.   The plane cleared Chinese airspace.

2.   China is demanding a halt to US surveillance missions along its borders and accuses the US plane of causing the accident and invading Chinese airspace.

3.   Chinese officials said the U.S spy plane then intruded into Chinese airspace to make an emergency landing at Hainan Island after the collision.

4.   The second thing that these words related to, he said, concerned the question of the U.S. plane entering Chinese airspace.

5.   A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the administration successfully resisted a Chinese demand that the letter say the plane violated Chinese airspace.

6.   After Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened, the Chinese government granted permission to cross the country, on condition the balloon leave Chinese airspace as soon as possible.

7.   At the insistence of Secretary of State Colin Powell, the United States refused to say the American plane had violated Chinese airspace.

8.   But at the insistence of Secretary of State Colin Powell, the United States refused to say the American plane had violated Chinese airspace by landing at Hainan.

9.   But at the insistence of Secretary of State Colin Powell, the United States refused to say the American plane had violated Chinese airspace.

10.   But, at the insistence of Secretary of State Colin Powell, the United States refused to say the American plane violated Chinese airspace.