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[LordOfLore]

BREAKING: China's navy has seized an unmanned, underwater U.S. Navy vehicle in international waters of South China Sea.

 

[Geist-]

Damn, I wonder if this is because of Trump's remarks about Taiwan. A little show of force.

This is fucking scary...

 

[frontovik]

Uh oh.

 

[WedgeX]

Can't imagine why this escalated.

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

What does this mean?!

 

[Mesousa]

Shouldn't have played friendly with Taiwan.

Theres only one China.

 

[Vena]

BREAKING: China's navy has seized an unmanned, underwater U.S. Navy vehicle in international waters of South China Sea.

Trump is going to walk into a political disaster before even taking office, and have no idea how to handle it.

 

[DorkLord54]

He isn't even president, and they're already telling Trump "We aren't fucking around."

Man, the next four years are gonna be rough.

 

[Ferny]

Welp...this is quite a pickle we're in.

 

[Stinkles]

Trump is going to walk into a political disaster before even taking office, and have no idea how to handle it.

One directly of his own making.

 

[HStallion]

Ineffectual bull shit ridden tweet incoming in 3... 2... 1... TWEET!

 

[The Jackdog]

lets not rule out this guy yet everybody

 

[Bluekaveli]

That's no good

 

[Vena]

One directly of his own making.

Yes, the cherry on top of this geopolitical disaster.

Spoiler

Or Obama is just going to seize power on basis of gross incompetence before we're plunged into war.

 

[VeryGooster]

Tomorrow never dies

edit; goddamn it!

 

[CryptiK]

This will turn into nothing.

 

[Sephzilla]

 

[capitalCORN]

Welp...this is quite a pickle we're in.

Essentially. China has near impunity to operate in the area, considering Asean's softening towards them. Pray for Korea and Japan.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Awaiting that Trump tweet that makes matters worse.

 

[M52B28]

I don't think they're will be any retaliation. This is only going to lead to higher tensions between the U.S and China.

 

[Beartruck]

China to Trump: "Stick out your tongue and we'll cut it off."

 

[Adaren]

I realized that "seized" is a scary word, but unmanned and underwater? Is this actually a show of force, or just some sort of routine clean-up?

EDIT: If it's a drone, then I guess that makes the "unmanned" part less surprising.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

We gon die

 

[BlazinSkatinAxel]

You don't mess with people you owe money to.

 

[Cosmo Clock 21]

China intervening in the US election now

 

[SliceSabre]

Apparently this drone is just for seafloor mapping?

 

[Funky Papa]

triggering a formal demarche from the United States and a demand for its return, a U.S. defense official told Reuters on Friday.

Remember when Iran downed a stealth/stealthy drone and America asked for its return?

Yeah.

That thing is being torn apart as we speak.

 

[The Jackdog]

Tomorrow never dies

edit; goddamn it!

im just happy someone got the joke

 

[Trojita]

So I take it we will see a knockoff copy version of this submarine by the Chinese navy soon?

 

[RPGCrazied]

Hopefully this sends a message to electors that Trump's words have dire consequences.

 

[AnotherNils]

Can't wait for someone to blame Obama

 

[studyguy]

Ah hadn't seen there was another thread, apologies.

Anyway, between the whole Taiwan bit, nuclear bomber being flown and now this. They're really trying to call Trump's bluff it seems. Along with apparently state run news outlets calling to take Taiwan militarily (I heard they do that often though?). It's getting pretty worrisome.

 

[jax]

Well, at least we finally got another good Star Wars movie before WW3. It's been fun, y'all.

 

[Betty]

This will turn into nothing.

Just like Trump will never get the nomination

 

[The Jackdog]

Hopefully this sends a message to electors that Trump's words have dire consequences.

id count on this emboldening them.

remember, our ally, russia, has got our back now and everything

 

[KernelPanic]

I don't think they're will be any retaliation. This is only going to lead to higher tensions between the U.S and China.

Putin's Xmas present is early this year

 

[WedgeX]

Thinking about it, this is one way for Trump to gain more support. Nothing like a little nationalist fervor to bring people together.

Can't wait for someone to blame Obama

The twitter responses to Reuters are already on top of that.

 

[maquiladora]

A little more substance for the OP

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/16/politics/chinese-warship-underwater-drone-stolen/index.html

 

[rdytoroll]

2017 coming to your house, preorder now for the best seats!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHzkixlr4-Y

Spoiler

This is kinda scary tho

 

[Afrodium]

I realized that "seized" is a scary word, but unmanned and underwater? Is this actually a show of force, or just some sort of routine clean-up?

I would imagine underwater is referring to it as a submersible rather than a sunken boat.

 

[Proelite]

China's government will try going to goad and ruffle Trump into an overreaction for the next four years. Outside of the cabinet, all other Washington officials is going to hate the fact that we're going to be buddies buddies with Russia instead despite less economical and geopolitical benefits.

 

[Adaren]

I would imagine underwater is referring to it as a submersible rather than a sunken boat.

Yeah, it makes more sense if it's a drone.

I was trying to figure out why we had an unmanned submarine floating around.

 

[Ray Wonder]

Why are they touching our oceanographic survey equipment? Are they going to say we need a permit of some shit?

I'm assuming this is now them claiming that they own the South China Sea.

 

[Auto_aim1]

They probably already built a duplicate one.

 

[PdotMichael]

Why are they touching our oceanographic survey equipment? Are they going to say we need a permit of some shit?

I'm assuming this is now them claiming that they own the South China Sea.

The US defense official will not tell anyone on CNN that this was an attempt of spying into Chinese waters.

 

[HammerOfThor]

Wait if its in international waters how can they seize it? I though they only have the "right" to do that if it's in their waters.

 

[Gorillaz]

Even drones out here got it rough

 

[AmyS]

2017 coming to your house, preorder now for the best seats!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHzkixlr4-Y

Spoiler

This is kinda scary tho

Holy shit.

 

[Ray Wonder]

They probably already built a duplicate one.

It's probably on Alibaba for 20% of what they cost here

The US defense official will not tell anyone on CNN that this was an attempt of spying into Chinese waters.

It's not Chinese waters, it's the South China Sea. Unless that's what you're saying. Is that it actually wasn't taken out of the South China Sea, and was taken out of Chinese waters.

 

[jchap]

China was being aggressive in the spratleys before Trump ever considered running. GAF thinks the world revolves around Trump.

Until Trump tweeted all the did was build weponized artificial islands all over the place!