US Navy – No real progress on releasing the EP-3 crew. Obtaining access to the EP-3 represents a true intelligence windfall for the Chinese.

• BBC: Spy plane crew ‘in high spirits’
  

• Jane’s: Aircraft PR-32: how much of an intelligence windfall does it present?
  

• Aviation Week and Space Technology: New Intelligence Gear On China-Held EP-3

Background – Asia – The US military will increasingly focus on the military threats it faces in Asia, but this will not be easy as its bases are far and few between???and to guard against such threats, the US must keep its guard up, hence the reason behind the EP-3 flights that are conducted regularly in the Pacific???

• Christian Science Monitor: US military tries to plan for rise of Asia
• MSNBC: U.S. spy flights assume new urgency