“China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters – rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented (sic) act,” Trump tweeted, misspelling unprecedented.
He later reissued the tweet, correcting the spelling.
Trump has repeatedly infuriated China in recent weeks, questioning decades-old US policy on Taiwan, making phone call to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and calling Beijing a currency manipulator.
The drone incident, the latest encounter in international waters in the South China Sea region, occurred earlier this week about 161 km off the Philippine port at Subic Bay.
