The crew's departure from the tropical southern Chinese city of Haikou on Hainan island came as a shock to most people. We can't release them. They haven't apologised yet. We don't even know where our pilot is. Students on the campus of Hainan University just finding out about the crew's release said they were disappointed in China's leaders.
China is such a big country.
They were clearly wrong. We give in too easily. His words were echoed by a group of men standing outside the military guesthouse in Haikou where the crew had been kept for 12 days. China's leaders nowadays are no good. We've seen what happened after the embassy bombing.