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By William Wan The Washington Post BEIJING » As frustrations mount, the sniping has be- gun in the search for the van- ished Malaysia Airlines jet. China has criticized the Ma- laysia-led investigation for not searching hard or fast enough. Malaysia has criti- cized Vietnam for releasing — prematurely, Malaysia in- sists — photos of possible de- bris amid the search. Meanwhile, some fam- ilies of passengers have criticized them all for lack of communication, accus- ing them of general incom- petence and of caring more about their image than about survivors. Among the 10 countries that have sent vessels and aircraft to help with the search, China has been the most vocal. Out of the 239 passen - gers onboard, 154 were from China or Taiwan, but China has been especially sensi- tive because of domestic criticism in past years that it does not do enough to pro- tect its citizens abroad. Chinese officials from President Xi Jinping down have issued repeated state - ments emphasizing not only how much equipment and manpower they have de- ployed but how much their leaders have berated their Malaysian counterparts in recent days. On Monday, Foreign Min - istry spokesman Qin Gang urged Malaysian authorities to "step up their efforts and speed up their investigation" and to make sure China and Chinese passengers' families "find out the truth of things as soon as possible." And Chinese news media, which are often controlled or censored by the government, have been fairly critical. So far, China has deployed nine ships and four helicop - ters. It has also deployed 10 satellites, erasing their orig- inal commands to redirect them to support the search. China has also sent a working group to Malaysia including officials from Chi - na's Foreign Ministry, pub- lic security and civil aviation to spur the recovery expert Malaysia has borne the brunt of the criticism, which has focused on its search strategy and its airport au - thorities' failure to check the passports of two passen- gers against an Interpol da- tabase of stolen travel doc- uments. In response, Malaysian officials have publicly de- fended their efforts, and cited positive comments by the Chinese ambassador in Malaysia about their coor - dination. To some online, none of the governments have come off particularly well. One popular post that has been forwarded thousands of times on China's ver - sion of Twitter mocks sev- eral countries for criticizing each other rather than find- ing the plane: "Vietnam keeps discov- ering. Malaysia keeps de- nying. China keeps send- ing things on the way. Jour- nalists keep waiting at the Lido hotel where relatives are holed up. Family mem- bers keep being in pain. . . . But where is the plane?" One irony in the multi- national effort of the past few days is that some of the states involved have been locked in bitter territorial disputes, including over the South China Sea near the eastern portions of the search site. And China has been per - ceived in the region as a par- ticularly egregious aggres- sor in recent years. The sniping ref lects a lack of built-in cooperation because of such regional tensions, said Zhang Mingli - ang, an expert on Southeast Asian studies at Jinan Uni- versity based in Guangzhou. R ather tha n cr iticiz- ing each other during the search and rescue, he said, "involved pa r ties could learn from this incident about the necessity of co - operation. ... Maybe it could help future diplomatic rela- tions." MIssING plaNE Nations point fingers amid search for Malaysian jet Ng HaN guaN — THe associaTed Press a woman cries saturday at the arrival hall of the international airport in Beijing, china. By anthony Faiola and Carol Morello The Washington Post KIEV, UKraINE » Russia's grab for Crimea is raising the specter of the Cold War. But the story of the crisis is also one of divided loyalties, competing visions and the struggle for national iden - tity in a country caught in a vise between East and West. It is, in some respects, a tale of two Ukrainian cities: Kiev and Sevastopol. An ancient city of 2.8 mil - lion people at the heart of what is now Ukraine, Kiev experienced three and a half centuries of domination under Moscow's rule before the dissolution of the So - viet Union in 1991. The site of the Independence Square protests that ousted the pro-Moscow government here last month, Ukraine's sprawling capital is home to many who see this as a his - toric moment to shift more fully to the West. World In Ukraine's tug of war, a tale of 2 cities alexaNder ZemliaNicHeNko — THe associaTed Press demonstrators wave russian, navy and other flags as they gather monday to support russians in crimea. By Hassan Morajea and abigail Hauslohner The Washington Post TrIpolI, lIBya » Libya's Congress handed a no-con- fidence vote to Prime Minis- ter Ali Zeidan on Tuesday in a yet another jolt to the oil- rich nation's crumbling polit- ical stability. Libya's elected General Na- tional Congress voted to oust Zeidan a day after the govern- ment's weak security forces failed to stop a North Korean- flagged oil tanker from de- parting Libya's eastern shore with an unauthorized $36 mil- lion cargo of crude oil. Less than three years af- ter the fall of dictator Moam- mar Gadhafi, Libya has been riven by increasingly violent political animosities as pow- erful militias, aligned with rival political factions, have struggled to exert control over key government of - fices, territory and — sig- nificantly — the country's vast oil resources. Federalist fighters seek- ing autonomy for eastern Libya have laid siege to some of the country's key oil wells and ports, effectively paralyzing exports for the past six months. The weekend docking of the North Korean tanker marked the first indepen - dent sale of oil by a non- state body, threatening to escalate regional and tribal tensions into a full-fledged war. Zeidan threatened to use force if the ship tried to leave. But after a three-day stand- off between the eastern reb - els and government-allied forces, the rebels said Tues- day that the tanker had en- tered international waters. "We don't care what the GNC does with Zeidan. 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