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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If it’s a misspelling, it’s a damned clever one.
“57 states
Marine corpse
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My muslim faith”
Army base
I say we start impeachment proceedings immediately. Or maybe just a lynching party! This is almost as offensive as a sitting president saying we had ... oh ... 57 states or something equally stupid.
The libs chomp at the bit for any morsel. No one is force feeding them.
....yes, the two are cordial with each other.
Hmmmm...maybe 0zika should have a talk with Mooch, about her dissing Trump. Tell her she’s acting stupidly, with that.
My first thought was that it was deliberate.
Though not as a knock on Obama but a tease of the press and liberals by giving them another opportunity to rant uncontrollably and expose their irrational state.
The Left has literally gone insane over the Trump victory and they daily demonstrate their insanity.
Even Obama's press conference yesterday was demonstrably bizarre.
The more the Left acts out their irrational anger and fear, the less credible they are and the less effective they will be in mounting a serious threat to the changes Trump will make immediately after inauguration.
At this point it kind of seems chic to accuse other countries of bad things. Afterall, Russia stole our election according to Obama. We do at least KNOW China DID take the drone.
That’s how a President spells it so Trumps spelling is correct.
EVERYONE is pissed at Cankles for screwing the pooch. She has lost her power and have opened the entire establishment up to liability and criminal prosecution.
4 degrees outside, wind chill at -22. 1/4”of ice covers everything and it has just started to snow.
ITS AS BEAUTIFUL DAY !!
Especially since we were technically at war, by proxy, with China over the Korea War.
If Nixon wouldn't have gone to China, China would have remained the back-water failed communist state that it was, instead of the manufacturing and military powerhouse that it is now, thanks to stealing our technology and manipulating trade and currency.
That's why China is powerful - because of THEFT. Theft of our copyright laws and getting in bed with our lobbyists and Chamber of Commerce, who in turn have worked with Congress to destroy our middle class and industrial base.
Why does Obama need at least 3 (three) desk chairs? Does he have a perpetually sore butt or something?
The last one isn’t an error.
At first, I didn't get your reference. But then I realized you were probably talking about "Captain Dunsail," a nautical term for a man who is entirely useless aboard ship. The term comes from the English "dun sail" or "down sail," which obviously doesn't contribute anything to the ship's propulsion.
The oval office is mostly used for photo ops. It isn’t a working space.
from http://maritime-executive.com/article/chinese-warship-seizes-us-navy-drone
“The drone was part of an unclassified program to collect oceanographic data including salinity, temperature and clarity of the water, the U.S. official added. The data can help inform U.S. military sonar data since such factors affect sound.
The USNS Bowditch, a U.S. Navy ship crewed by civilians that carries out oceanographic work, had already retrieved one of two of its drones, known as ocean gliders, when a Chinese Dalang III class vessel took the second one.”
Translation... The “civilians” are CIA. The drone was doing surveillance and either the Chinese found out about it or were tipped off about it (more likely) and snagged the unmanned vehicle.
If it’s really an oceanographic data buoy as claimed, collecting salinity and temperature data, what’s the big deal? It’s insulting, but blowing it up into an international incident like the Chinese buzzing of a plane a few years ago seems rather silly.
I take it as calling out an absent POTUS who didn’t want to take a 3AM phone call, again.
BTW just where WAS he during the Benghazi terrorist attack?
The captain of the Exxon Valdez wasn’t even on duty when the accident happened and the press had a field day that he was drunk at the time. What was Obama’s intoxicant and who was he with?
Sly like a fox. He had the entire globe reading that tweet within 20 minutes and people who hadn’t heard about China seizing the drone are now wondering why Obama isn’t doing anything about it....
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