Just a friendly reminder that President Obama is still president of the United States.
This action was committed under Obama's government. Unless explicitly stated otherwise by China, this was a move against the current government and/or the United States as a whole.
It is unrelated to Trump, even if some people love to put the blame of everything on him. "Thanks Trump!" will soon become the new "Thanks Obama!".
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Everything will be "Obama's fault" for the next four years...
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Trump rips China for seizing Navy drone
“China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act,” Trump wrote on Twitter
..I just had to
A short time later, he deleted the tweet and reposted it with "unprecedented" spelled correctly.
The department said in a statement it is using "appropriate government-to-government channels" to call upon China to return the drone "immediately."
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China's reponse: Oh...okay. You can have it back
China said Saturday it will return the unmanned U.S. drone it seized in the South China Sea, calling the issue "hyped up" by the U.S.
"Upon confirming that the device was a U.S. underwater drone, the Chinese side decided to transfer it to the U.S. side in an appropriate manner," said the spokesman for the Chinese Defense Ministry, Sr. Col. Yang Yujun
China's most advanced frigate is almost identical in capabilities to the FFG-7 OHP frigates the US procured in the 80s and has withdrawn from service (and are now used by several US allies), its one advantage being a VLS. Its most advanced surface warship (of which they are building 12 of) is inferior in loadout to even a Flight I DDG-51. Chinese ASuW missiles have a very poor reliability record. In 10 years, the USN will still have a superior number of modern surface warships with superior SAMs, superior subs, and superior aircraft.
The US was operating in international water conducting scientific research. Even if they had been conducting active "spying", being in international water means China had no legal authority to steal the drone.
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Party A: China
Party B: The rest of the world and international maritime law.
Lobbying in the US changes the laws that protect the worker and the environment to stop protecting them, for business interests. So long as they remain the law however they're enforced. China's laws however are not enforced. In the US you pay to slowly but surely change the laws in your favor over a long amount of time, in China you just pay to get a pass immediately on having to follow them.
Yeah it's often the entire world vs one state. But it's just words. Nobody is going to move China out of the area.
At the end of the day chinas political and economic power is a sufficient deterrent for those who have the power to kick them out militarily.
If it were a smaller country or a country without veto power, then yeah, something might happen, but even that is rare these days.
In a while, some countries might refuse to accept chinas claims officially, but everybody who wants to sail a ship there will just follow chinas laws/rules.
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Actually, there are miitary garrisons of several countries in the SCS already and the US isnt going to stop sailing and flying in international regions on OUR terms.
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Its just a scientific research drone.....