China Captured U.S. Underwater Drone

[debunkgpolitics]

Originally posted by debunkgpolitics at China Captured U.S. Underwater Drone
The Economist (issue 12/24/2016-1/6/2017, page 53

Comments

[luvdovz]

China doesn't do stuff just to embarrass Trump. He's already been doing a pretty good jon in that respect anyway.

[nairiporter]

So why did they do it? Why did they seize the drone?

[luvdovz]

To show they can do whatever the hell they want in their backyard.

[nairiporter]

But they quickly backed off soon after the US raised a hue and cry about it. They seemed rather eager to return the drone pronto. I would say they just made a stupid decision and didn't know what to do with it.

[luvdovz]

That's another way to look at the situation, yep.

[garote]

Can't destroy it -- act of war. Don't want to accept the precedent of the US wandering wherever it likes. Best move: "Hey everybody, look what we found!"

[nairiporter]

Or they could have pretended they never noticed it. :-)

[garote]

Was re: "Don't want to accept the precedent" above...

China's government believes that it has a duty to censor what its own people see, for its own sake. So that naturally extends to the people of other governments!

Actually, it's interesting to compare it to the US government's philosophy. Our government seems to think it has a duty to sift through all personal communications for the sake of nabbing violent religious extremists. Kind of a wacked-out justification for such intrusive surveillance, IMHO.

[johnny9fingers]

Clever old Chinese...

But with Bannon in charge they will have to play a clever and subtle hand.