No date was set but American officials said it might take place in two weeks. Satellite photos suggest Chinese experts are inspecting the plane's sophisticated electronics. The 24-member crew was only allowed to return to the United States after 11 days on the island. Another irritant in U.S.-China relations comes as Washington is to make a decision, possibly next week, on selling weapons to Taiwan. Taiwan arms resented The administration has tried to separate the weapons package from the dispute over U.S. spy flights.
China bitterly resents the Taiwan arms sales.
China's communist government considers the island a breakaway province and has threatened to use force to capture it. The sides split amid civil war in 1949. State media kept up a blizzard of criticism of the United States on Friday. The paper also quoted experts at government-run think tanks blaming the United States for the lack of agreement in the talks this week. China faulted the U.S. plane, which it said swung suddenly into Wang's fighter.