{"id":17475,"date":"2016-12-20T08:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T08:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=17475"},"modified":"2016-12-20T08:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T08:06:55","slug":"china-returns-seized-u-s-naval-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/china-returns-seized-u-s-naval-drone.html","title":{"rendered":"China returns seized U.S. naval drone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China returns seized U.S. naval drone<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

China returns seized U.S. naval drone:-<\/strong> China on Tuesday returned a U.S. naval drone seized in the South China Sea last week, a peaceful resolution to a military standoff that threatened to inflame maritime tensions ahead of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chinese Ministry of Defense said in statement that after \u201cfriendly negotiation\u201d the drone was transferred to the U.S. In a separate statement, the Pentagon confirmed the drone\u2019s return, but offered a less friendly-sounding account.<\/span><\/p>\n

The incident was \u201cinconsistent with both international law and standards of professionalism for conduct between navies at sea,\u201d the Pentagon statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. has addressed those facts with the Chinese through the appropriate diplomatic and military channels, and have called on Chinese authorities to comply with their obligations under international law and to refrain from further efforts to impede lawful U.S. activities,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The standoff started last week after a Chinese submarine rescue ship close to the USNS Bowditch, an oceanographic survey vessel operating northwest of Subic Bay in the Philippines, took possession of the U.S. drone. The U.S. side said it asked the ship to return the vessel and the Chinese side refused.<\/span><\/p>\n

The drone\u2019s seizure about 50 nautical northwest of Subic Bay, a Philippine port that was once a U.S. military base and it still plays host to visiting U.S. troops and ships. The area is not far Scarborough Shoal, a cluster of reefs and rocks that has been a flashpoint in China-Philippine and China-U.S. relations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump soon weighed-in on the matter, posting a message on Twitter that said: \u201cChina steals United States Navy research drone in international waters \u2014 rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When the Chinese side eventually agreed to return the vessel, Trump weighed in again. \u201cWe should tell China that we don\u2019t want the drone they stole back.- let them keep it!\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

[China said it would return a seized U.S. naval drone. Trump told them to \u2018keep it.\u2019]<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s response to the drone\u2019s seizure deepened Chinese concerns about the president-elect\u2019s Asia policy. Since winning the U.S. presidential election, he surprised Beijing by taking a phone call from Taiwan\u2019s leader, Tsai Ing-wen, a move that broke with decades of diplomatic practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

His comments on the Taiwan issue and tweets on the drone\u2019s seizure have made him a figure of derision and ridicule in the Communist Party-controlled press.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTrump is not behaving as a president who will become master of the White House in a month,\u201d the Global Times, a Communist party controlled newspaper, wrote in an editorial on Sunday. \u201cHe bears no <\/span><\/p>\n

Source:- https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/china-returns-seized-us-naval-drone\/2016\/12\/20\/4dde17b2-c633-11e6-acda-59924caa2450_story.html?utm_term=.6c9f87362981sense of how to lead a superpower.\u201d<\/span><\/divb>\n

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