(2) 点评：南海捕获潜航器或最高层拍板. BBC Chinese, Dec 19, 2016 www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-38367823
("伦敦大学亚非学院中国研究院院长曾锐生教授 [Steve Tsang; born in Hong Kong in 1959] * * * 认为，特朗普的言行显示，外界唯一确定知道的事情是 '他不让你绝对理解自己的政策是什么、他会怎样与你打交道，所以你要去想他会如何与你打交道，然后再决定如何与他打交道。' 他认为中国此举很可能是一种以其人之道还治其人之身的做法。他说："中国拿走美国潜航器可能也是同样作用，就好像对美国人说'不要以为我们就听你的话，我们也会重新考虑与你们打交道的方式' ")
Jane Perlez, Muted US Response to China's Seizure of Drone Worries Asian Allies; A 'diminishment of American authority in the region' is seen. New York Times, Dec 19, 2016.
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(a) "Significantly, the Chinese grabbed the drone not only in international waters but outside even the “nine-dash line” that China uses as a marker for its claims in the South China Sea. In so doing, analysts said, Beijing was making the point that the entire sea was its preserve, even though it is entirely legal for the United States to conduct military operations in waters within 200 miles of the Philippines, an area known as an exclusive economic zone.
(b) "The drone episode, which occurred on Thursday and was first broadcast by CNN despite efforts by the Obama administration to settle it quietly, was of a different nature and just as disquieting as past confrontations with China that involved bigger ships and more dangerous maneuvers, analysts said.
(c) "This time, China chose a more unconventional method to challenge the United States and hastened the timetable, challenging a president-elect rather than a newly installed president as it has in the past.
"The drone itself, known as an unmanned underwater vehicle, was not a particularly important piece of equipment. Such drones are deployed to gather military oceanographic data and are available over the counter for about $150,000, the Pentagon said. Data from the drone would no doubt be used to help track China’s growing submarine fleet, naval experts said.
"More important than the equipment was the principle of freedom of navigation in international waters, and whether China was in the process of imposing its own rules in the South China Sea
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