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Chinese NGO hopes to recover crashed US warplane in gesture of Sino-US friendship
A Curtiss P-40 Warhawk that flew with the Flying Tigers [Renett Stowe/cc]

A CHINESE NGO plans to recover a crashed US warplane that has lain at the bottom of a lake since 1942 as a gesture of Sino-US friendship.

Han Bo of the China Adventure Association said he hopes the project is a “warm current in the cold wave that eases people’s worries about China-US ties,” with the US ramping up a new cold war against China through multiple political and economic attacks on the country.

It will involve hauling a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft to the surface of Lake Dianchi near Kunming, capital of Yunnan province. 

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