Posted on 12/17/2016 6:09:20 AM PST by Pinkbell
Donald Trump is still a month away from the White House, but the president-elect is only ramping up his rhetoric against China.
Trump took to Twitter on early Saturday morning to lash out at the country for seizing a US Navy drone two days ago in the South China Sea.
'China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented (sic) act,' Trump wrote in a misspelled tweet.
Trump's criticism came just hours after a Chinese official said the country was in talks with the American military for a 'smooth resolution' over the drone. The capture - the first of its kind in recent memory - took place on December 15 just as the USNS Bowditch, an American oceanographic survey ship, was about to retrieve the unmanned underwater glider.
US officials issued a formal diplomatic complaint over the seizure and demanded the return of the $150,000 drone, which was collecting unclassified scientific data.
'It is ours. It's clearly marked as ours,' Navy Capt Jeff Davis said on Friday.
'We would like it back, and we would like this not to happen again.'
China said Saturday that its military was in contact with its American counterparts on 'appropriately handling' the seizure, one of the most serious incidents between the two militaries in years.
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Yep
Daily Mail is on our side. And they report the news the American media deems not fit to print.
I believe you mean... ‘citing.’
Meanwhile, China's Defense Ministry claimed that a Chinese navy lifeboat had discovered what first appeared to be a peace of 'unidentified equipment'.
I'm still snickering...
Damn spell check.
Truly laughing out loud.
>>Good morning! The #WordOfTheDay is...not ‘unpresidented’. <<
I think it should be a real word, as in “The USA has been unpresidented since 1/21/2008 but will be presidented starting 1/20/2016.”
My History teacher (back when they used to teach such foolishness) told us a story on this topic.
It seems at one point Andy was a quartermaster for the Army, and his job was to inspect cases of rifles to make sure each case was complete, the rifles assembled, and in working order. When he got done with each case he would mark it..."Oll Korekt" (guess he had a bit of an accent)
You know how the military is with acronyms, so as time went on, he decided to abbreviate it, and simply marked them OK.
I made a typo in a topic about a typo. Fail for me.
A spoken tweet vs. a typed tweet. Autocorrect does it all the time on texts, to me at least, and I don't always read carefully enough to catch the changes.
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