# China Controls Taiwan?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-controls-taiwan/774654>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 14, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-controls-taiwan/774654 "2016-12-14T02:33:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-controls-taiwan/774654/101 "2016-12-18T04:04:36Z")

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This was an off the shelf drone you could purchase yourself if you had $150k to blow.

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**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2016, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-controls-taiwan/774654/102 "2016-12-18T07:07:35Z")

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China has said they will return the drone. But wow, it was seized way out there almost in the Philippines.

> **[China to return seized US underwater drone, Pentagon says](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38352761)**
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> The US says it has "secured an understanding" that China will return an underwater drone it has seized.

It’s not even clear to me if this is inside the 9 dash line that China claims. Anyway, considering that the US probably has drones in that area all the time and China has never seized one before, it seems pretty likely to me that this is a reaction to Trump speaking to Taiwan’s President.

And, for fucks sake, the US president elect can’t even spell correctly. “UnPresidented” is not a word, but I wish it was, I’ve never seen anyone more deserving.

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