{"id":285610,"date":"2016-12-18T04:09:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T03:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/let-china-keep-seized-us-drone-trump-says-in-new-tweet\/"},"modified":"2016-12-18T04:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T03:09:57","slug":"let-china-keep-seized-us-drone-trump-says-in-new-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/let-china-keep-seized-us-drone-trump-says-in-new-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Let China keep seized US drone, Trump says in new tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President\u2013elect Donald Trump says the US government should not want back its unmanned underwater vehicle captured (UUV) by China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump made the comments in a Saturday tweet, posted shortly after the Pentagon reassured the nation that the drone would be returned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should tell China that we don&#8217;t want the drone they stole back &#8211; let them keep it!&#8221; Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet was posted after Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement that &#8220;Through direct engagement with Chinese authorities, we have secured an understanding that the Chinese will return the UUV to the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese defense ministry also said on its website that the authorities &#8220;decided to return it to the US side in an appropriate manner,\u201d adding that the two countries \u201chave all along been in communication about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Chinese navy launched a small boat and removed the unmanned underwater vehicle from waters near a US oceanographic research&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/18\/498363\/China-should-keep-captured-US-UUV-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President\u2013elect Donald Trump says the US government should not want back its unmanned underwater vehicle captured (UUV) by China. Trump made the comments in a Saturday tweet, posted shortly after the Pentagon reassured the nation that the drone would be returned. &#8220;We should tell China that we don&#8217;t want the drone they stole back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}