10 things you need to know today: December 18, 2016

Trump says China should keep the U.S. drone it 'stole' in 'unpresidented' manner, China says U.S. is 'hyping up' drone seizure done in the name of safety, and more

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1. Trump says China should keep the U.S. drone it 'stole' in 'unpresidented' manner

President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on China's seizure of a U.S. oceanographic drone early Saturday, tweeting, "China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unpresidented act." He soon replaced the typo-marred post with one calling the situation "unprecedented" — though not before the neologism began trending on Twitter with suggestions that Trump not be president — and later on Saturday tweeted that "We should tell China that we don't want the drone they stole back.- let them keep it!"

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.