Tweets that the U.S. should let China keep seized Navy drone

After the Pentagon announced China would return an American underwater surveillance drone it had seized in the South China Sea, Trump undercut the diplomatic exchange by tweeting, "let them keep it!" The statement contradicted his own earlier outrage and signaled to Beijing that the incoming president might surrender U.S. military property to score points online, complicating crisis management before taking office.

"We should tell China that we don't want the drone they stole back.- let them keep it!" — Twitter post