So, the Chinese take an underwater survey vehicle right off the cables attaching it to a U.S. Ship and ignore the protests of the Navy. This is seizure of a naval vessel on the high seas, an act of war. The reaction to it is a little short of war. As John Bolton said today, a fitting end to the Obama Administration.
The Chinese have promised to return the undersea "drone" which was captured by them. They will give it a good look over as they did the US aircraft which collided with a Chinese fighter in 2001. The Chinese gave the crew back and blamed the whole incident on the U.S, not the pilot of the Chinese fighter that hit the slower moving surveillance aircraft. We are going to continue to have these kinds of incidents which should be routine to the military unites carrying them out. I described an incident similar to this one in my first book. The Chinese tried to grab hold of a towed array with a hooked pole and got the cable up on the desk. Why somebody doesn't shoot at them says a lot for the restraint of our seamen. Even a water cannon would have stopped the boat from taking that drone.
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