[podperson]

It's hard to analyze data before it's available!

Aside from this announcement, Chinese have also (apparently) seen more stuff from planes and satellites than anyone else, despite -- for example -- lacking the P3 Orion and the P8 Poseidon, and not having much blue water navy experience, and it not being just off their coast.

We had big fanfare over the number of P3s the US and Australia were committing to the search, and the addition of the P8, and the deployment of a special US Naval vessel with dedicated sensor array. Since then the only nation to report positive sightings (more than once) has been China. Interesting no?