China’s armed forces have returned to the US Navy an underwater drone that they had seized on Friday in the South China Sea, bringing a swift denouement to a crisis that raised tensions between Washington and Beijing.
The handover of the small submarine to the US was “completed smoothly” after “friendly consultations” between both sides, China’s defence ministry said in a statement on its website.
The Pentagon said the drone had been handed back to the US Navy by a Chinese ship near the location where it had been seized, which it described as 50 nautical miles north-west of Subic Bay in the Philippines.
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