South China Morning Post: Chinese demands ‘to come with handover of seized US drone’
Beijing may insist US roll back surveillance in disputed waters amid fears of more tension during transition in Washington, analysts say.
Beijing is expected to demand the United States scale down its surveillance in the South China Sea when it hands back a seized US underwater drone, observers said on Sunday.
It was also expected to seek an expansion in the code for unplanned military encounters in the disputed waters to cover drones like the one seized by a Chinese warship off the Philippine coast near Subic Bay on Thursday.
The defence ministry said late on Saturday that the US had ratcheted up tensions but China would return the drone belonging to the US oceanographic survey ship Bowditch, “in an appropriate manner”.
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Update: What An American Naval Drone Could Tell Us About The Future Of U.S.-China Relations (Ralph Jennings, Forbes)
WNU Editor: Listing demands before returning a drone that will be disassembled and returned as a hunk of metal and wires in a box .... this is getting better everyday.
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