{"id":69460,"date":"2016-12-19T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69460"},"modified":"2016-12-19T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:11:04","slug":"trump-tells-china-to-keep-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69460","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells China to keep drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69424\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69424\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/USS-Bowditch-500x243.jpg\" alt=\"USS Bowditch\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/USS-Bowditch-500x243.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/USS-Bowditch-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/USS-Bowditch-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/USS-Bowditch.jpg 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, China stole an underwater drone out from under the US Navy. The Obama Administration arranged for the equipment to be returned, but the President-elect Tweeted that China should keep it, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/articles\/china-says-it-is-appropriately-handling-us-navy-drone-issue\">the Navy Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. said that &#8220;through direct engagement with Chinese authorities, we have secured an understanding that the Chinese will return&#8221; the unmanned underwater vehicle, according to a statement from Peter Cook, spokesman for U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter. <\/p>\n<p>But Trump, after holding a rally to thank supporters for his election, took to Twitter to criticize the deal. &#8220;We should tell China that we don&#8217;t want the drone they stole back.- let them keep it!&#8221; the president-elect tweeted Saturday evening. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I kind of agree &#8211; the problem isn&#8217;t that they HAVE the drone, the problem is that they thought they could get away with TAKING the thing. The Chinese have already duplicated all of the technology, so getting back won&#8217;t change anything. It&#8217;s just an opportunity for the Chinese to have us come on bended knee for the return of our own gear. Let them keep it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, China stole an underwater drone out from under the US Navy. The Obama Administration &hellip; <a title=\"Trump tells China to keep drone\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69460\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump tells China to keep drone<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}