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China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the international-incidents dept.

An anonymous reader quotes The Hill: China said Saturday it will return the unmanned U.S. drone it seized in the South China Sea, calling the issue "hyped up" by the U.S. "Upon confirming that the device was a U.S. underwater drone, the Chinese side decided to transfer it to the U.S. side in an appropriate manner," said the spokesman for the Chinese Defense Ministry, Sr. Col. Yang Yujun, according to CNN. "China and the United States have been communicating about this process. It is inappropriate -- and unhelpful for a resolution -- that the U.S. has unilaterally hyped up the issue. We express our regret over that."
A Defense Ministry spokesman added that China opposes U.S. "surveillance and military surveys in waters facing China...and demands the U.S. cease such activities. China will stay alert over relevant U.S. activities and will take necessary measures to counter them."

5 of 199 comments (clear)

  1. They know by 110010001000 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Trump called Putin and Putin made a few calls.

    1. Re:They know by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 5, Funny

      Also, Chinese officials looked inside and realized "Oh, we pretty much make all of these components. Not much we could learn from this, I guess."

      --
      Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
    2. Re:They know by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 3, Funny

      To meet the requirements some assembly would have to be done in the US so they leave the last wire connection for the US "factory". It gets shipped over to the US, unpacked, the cover taken off, the worker follows the diagram to connect the final wire (which actually doesn't do anything), puts the cover back on, and packs it back up. Voila, assembled in America.

  2. Disassembled.... by stoicio · · Score: 3, Funny

    -parts photographed
    -boards xrayed
    -wiring logged
    -systems exported to solidworks for analysis

    We should have it back to you some time in April.

    Signed China

  3. China says "what are you going to do, nuke us?" by mveloso · · Score: 3, Funny

    So we stole a drone and you freak out. I mean, we already stole islands and you did nothing. Why would you care about a drone?