Chinese warship seizes US underwater drone in international waters
Official says drone deployed by American oceanographic vessel in South China Sea was taken by Chinese navy on Thursday
The oceanographic survey ship, USNS Bowditch. Photograph: US Navy/Reuters
Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday 17 December 2016 03.30 AEDT
The Chinese navy has seized an underwater drone in plain sight of the American sailors who had deployed it in international waters, in a seemingly brazen message to the incoming Trump administration.
According to a US defence official, the unmanned glider had come to the surface of the water in the South China Sea and was about to be retrieved by the USNS Bowditch, an oceanographic and surveillance ship, when a Chinese naval vessel that had been shadowing the Bowditch put a small boat in the water.
Chinese sailors in the small boat came alongside the drone and grabbed it despite the radioed protests from the Bowditch that it was US property in international waters. The incident happened about 100 miles north-west of the Philippines’ port of Subic Bay.
The US has issued a formal protest and demanded the return of the glider.
“The UUV [unmanned underwater vehicle] was lawfully conducting a military survey in the waters of the South China Sea,” the official said. “It’s a sovereign immune vessel, clearly marked in English not to be removed from the water – that it was US property.”
READ MORE: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/16/china-seizes-us-underwater-drone-south-china-sea
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