China's capture of a US Navy navy
drone an "unprecedented" act on
Saturday, as China agreed to return
the vessel to the US in an incident
that added to recent tensions
between the nations.
"China steals United States Navy
research drone in international
waters - rips it out of the water and
takes it to China in an unprecedented
act," Trump tweeted .
The drone, deployed by a US
oceanographic vessel in international
waters in the South China Sea, was
conducting a military survey roughly
50 nautical miles northwest of the
Philippines before it was seized by a
Chinese warship and removed from
the water on Thursday.
"It's a sovereign immune vessel,
clearly marked in English not to be
removed from the water - that it was
US property," a US official told
Reuters on Friday.
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