US Uses Cold War Language in Spy Plane Incident, Castro Says

US Uses Cold War Language in Spy Plane Incident: Castro

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Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz Thursday criticized the US government for using a "language typical of the Cold War" in the current standoff with China.

The spy plane standoff demonstrated how the United States was increasingly displaying "a Cold War mentality" in search of "power politics and hegemony," but "the Chinese government and people will not be intimidated easily," said Castro in a speech at the 105th Inter-parliamentary Union conference.

The incident is very serious and no one knows how grave this situation could become if US persists in its daring-do attitude, said the free-spoken leader.

On April 1, a US surveillance plane bumped into a Chinese jet fighter off the coast off Hainan Island in the South China Sea. The Chinese fighter crashed and its pilot is still missing.