True News Breaking: Security Concern! China Captures USA Navy Drone Submarine (Video)
A US Navy drone has been captured by a Chinese warship, which snatched it right in front of the American vessel. Pictured is a Slocum ocean glider
When the Bowditch stopped to collect the underwater equipment, a Chinese warship that had been following it dropped a boat into the water the pulled up alongside the US vessel and snatched the drone, according to CNN.
The USS Bowditch had been sampling and data collection of surface, midwater and ocean floor measurements, and US officials received no reply from the Chinese when they radioed to state the drone was American.
December 16 2016
They Stole it! Chinese warship seizes underwater US Navy drone!
A Chinese warship has captured an underwater US Navy drone right in front of the eyes of the crew of an American ship in the South China sea, prompting a government official to say, ‘they stole it’.
The incident has triggered a formal demarche from the United States and a demand for its return, a US defense official told Reuters on Friday.
The capture – the first of its kind in recent memory – took place on December 15 northwest of Subic Bay just as the USNS Bowditch, an oceanographic survey ship, was about to retrieve the unmanned, underwater vehicle.
The US crew had hoped to start communications with the Chinese vessel to get the drone back, but the ship eventually responded to say it was returning to normal operations and left the area, according to NBC News.
The Department of Defense released a statement, saying it was: ‘not the sort of conduct we expecti from professional navies.’
The US crew had hoped to start communications with the Chinese vessel to get the drone back, but the ship eventually responded to say it was returning to normal operations and left the area, according to NBC News.
The Department of Defense released a statement, saying it was: ‘not the sort of conduct we expecti from professional navies.’
Trump was attacked by Chinese newspapers this month, just days after he created potential diplomatic controversy by calling Taiwan and criticizing China’s government.
Trump’s protocol-shattering call with Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen and a subsequent Twitter tirade against Beijing’s policies could upend the delicate balance between the world’s two largest economies, the country’s media outlets said.
‘Provoking friction and messing up China-US relations won’t help “make America great again”,’ a front-page opinion piece in China’s People’s Daily said. The newspaper is a mouthpiece for the country’s Communist Party.
The newspaper is a mouthpiece for the country’s Communist Party.
The nationalist Global Times newspaper’s Chinese edition also ran a page-one story on Trump’s ‘inability to keep his mouth shut’, damning his ‘provocation and falsehoods’.
Trump fired off two tweets on Sunday blasting China for devaluing its currency, taxing American imports, and building military installations in the South China Sea.
