escalation of crisis with china with misspelling. then her yam webster tweeted the hashtag word of the day is not unprecedented. goes on to say, that's a new one. and at this rate, julie, it may be a new word by the end of the weekend. >> all right, will carr in los angeles. thank you. rick? well, for more on this, we go to gordon chang, author of the coming collapse of china and an asia expert. some have called this an act of piracy. you call it an act of war. >> what they did is they took a sovereign vessel, which is the way the defense department termed it, and they took it. so it doesn't matter whether it's an aircraft carrier or a drone, the principle is the same. this is an act of high piracy on the international seas. we have to respond. >> we know the chinese were tracking the u.s. vessel for days. clearly, they saw this drone being put in the water, and then they snatched it out and the americans watched it happen. and were, i guess, powerless to