It's done that in this case, and it leaves the door open for China to raise the issues they're not happy with in the future, even after the crew is gone.

The government is very worried about any upsurge of protests or dissent during this very delicate period immediately after Deng's death.

He's got a very difficult balancing act.

There was an enormous motorcade, several dozen cars, which then wound its way from the airport through the city where there is still very, very intense anger over the NATO bombing and the deaths that were caused by it.

It was absolutely a class act. Cool under fire and on top of the subject.

We passed town after town after town that looked like it had been literally flattened by an atomic bomb.

What this means is mutual recognition. That is something neither side has been willing to do (in the past).