Maybe..... if USA had their boats around USA, instead of in China Sea they would have no problem in recovering the plane ?

I have the feeling that the "losses" (remember the submarine that hit "something") are somewhat the result of careful Chinese planning....

Sadly we will never know who recovered what...

Let them have it. That bottomless money pit will bankrupt them too.

Also how does the most advanced plan ever just fly into the side of a carrier?

Waiting for further humiliation of US Navy and the marginal losses of government legitimacy that brings home.

that makes zero sense, why would they need to do that when they alreay have all the documentation about it?