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		</div><p>President-elect Donald Trump has said the United States should let China keep the navy unmanned underwater glider that it seized in the South China Sea.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We should tell China that we don&#8217;t want the drone they stole back &#8211; let them keep it!&#8221;</i> Mr Trump tweeted a few hours after the US military announced it had reached an understanding with China for the return of the underwater glider.</p>
<p>According to the Pentagon, the drone was seized on Thursday while collecting unclassified scientific data in the South China Sea, which China claims virtually in its entirety.</p>
<p>The US demanded the drone back, calling it an &#8220;unlawful seizure&#8221; in international waters.<br />
China said its military seized the underwater glider to ensure the safe navigation of passing ships, but would give it back.</p>
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<p>It was not immediately known what effect, if any, the president-elect&#8217;s tweet would have on the agreement with the Chinese.</p>
<p>The evening tweet was the second time Mr Trump injected himself into the controversy through Twitter on Saturday.</p>
<p>Misspelling &#8220;unprecedented&#8221;, he tweeted on Saturday morning: <i>&#8220;China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters &#8211; rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act.&#8221;</i> He later reissued the tweet, correcting the spelling.</p>
<p>Relations already were tense between the US and China following Mr Trump&#8217;s decision to talk by phone with Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen on December 2. He later said he did not feel &#8220;bound by a one-China policy&#8221; regarding the status of Taiwan, unless the US could gain trade or other benefits from China.</p>
<p>China considers the self-governing island its own territory to be recovered by force if it deems necessary.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Mr Trump told the final rally of his post-election tour that US first lady Michelle Obama &#8220;must have been talking about the past&#8221; when she said there was no sense of hope after his victory.</p>
<p>Mr Trump, speaking in Mobile, Alabama, then resisted escalating the spat further, suggesting <i>&#8220;she made that statement not meaning it the way it came out&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>But as he praised the Obamas for treating him so nicely when he visited the White House shortly after the election, many in the crowd booed the first family.</p>
<p>In an interview with Oprah Winfrey to be shown on Monday on CBS, Mrs Obama said she was now certain her husband&#8217;s victory had inspired people because <i>&#8220;now we&#8217;re feeling what not having hope feels like&#8221;.</i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;What do you give your kids if you can&#8217;t give them hope?&#8221;</i> she added.</p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s comments about the Obamas was one of the few conciliatory notes he sounded during a victory tour in which he showed few signs of turning the page from his blustery campaign to focus on uniting a divided nation a month before his inauguration.</p>
<p>At each stop, the Republican gloatingly recapped his election night triumph, reignited some old political feuds while starting some new ones, and did little to quiet the hate-filled chants of &#8220;Lock her up!&#8221; directed at Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>At the tour&#8217;s finale at the same football stadium in Mobile that hosted the biggest rally of his campaign, he saluted his supporters as true &#8220;patriots&#8221; and made little attempt to reach out to the more than half of the electorate that did not vote for him.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We are really the people who love this country,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
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