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All of that, you know, satellite capability, et cetera, to help find the plane. why target the u.s. now and how severe is that anger against washington as well? >> well, it seems like the chinese are pointing their finger at everyone, other than themselves. rolls-royce, malaysians and the u.s. as you say. china is a growing military power, but this has shown their lack of influence and investigative capability. of course the u.s. agencies are the ones taking the lead in this investigation and jim, we have to look at this also domestically. china is potentially going to face a lot of criticism ...

Control at some point where somebody's making conscious right decisions and giving us information we can rely on. >> fran townsend, in relation to the chinese having these images for a few days and only releasing them today, there is a theory they did this so they wouldn't tip off other countries that they had satellite capability like this. which would seem to be a very political maneuver that wouldn't be in the best interests of people trying to find the plane. what is the american view of this at high level? >> you know, piers, look. the chinese are very militarily capable. and so no questi...

Looking at the last 24, 48 hours that shows the alternate path. malaysians had that data for a few days and weren't sharing it widely. one force, there's a force at work here. there's a lot of tensions in this part of the south china sea, territorial disputes. we're talking about a territory dispute in europe and ukraine and one over here over a lot of different island chains between china and japan and china and southeast asian countries. this is a sensitive area of defense and the chinese may not want to show its competitors in that part of the world or us, the u.s. the extent of its satelli...

Their most technical capability. similarly the united states wouldn't either. you can bet, wolf, that right now, as regards the debris pictures from the chinese satellites, american satellite capability is being turned to this and looked at at the highest levels including our greatest technical capability so they get the greatest fidelity, they'll be able to help measure things like water current, wind, the effects on it. they'll get a much more capable understanding about what that debris is in the water to be able to either confirm that this is airplane debris from the malaysia flight or dis...