China.

From China Leadership Watch http://chinaleadershipwatch.tumblr.com/post/30513354654/ca-981-was-there-a-chinese-official-fleeing-to-the-us:

30TH AUG 2012

For the post spreading across in the Chinese web, link here and here:

Chinese media outlets are running with the story that there may have been a Chinese official fleeing authorities on flight CA 981 to New York that turned around to Beijing.  Over 200 heavily armed police conducted an inspection and hours later allowed the flight to continue on the New York.    

The surprising details published in Chinese news site this morning read that the flight received direct intelligence from American counterparts that there was a threat on board the flight.  These wild report don’t clear up anything and with news of a leading figure from Liaoning fleeing to the US with millions of USD stolen from public funds wired to overseas accounts, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was more to this story that is currently being said.