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Don't confuse "official" with "true". Beijing is happy, officially, to accept Washington's story that they clumsily crashed into a rock. The "true" story is re

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > Don't confuse "official" with "true". I’m not. The claim in the article which provided the story is that it is the “official Chinese story”. The article carefully avoids claiming that the story is true, though it obviously wants people to conclude that. > Beijing is happy, officially, to accept Washington's story that they clumsily crashed into a rock. Right. So the simplest claim in the article about the story—that it is China’s official story—is simply false. > The "true" story is really only relevant to the military planners on both sides. And presently it doesn't serve either of their interests to broadcast it publicly. Or, maybe the true story is what is officially broadcast, and the one with the obvious lie about the nature of the story is false beyond just that obvious lie?