Beijing has rejected accusations that a flight test it conducted in a contested part of the South China Sea was illegal. Vietnam alleged China's landing of a plane on a Beijing-built airstrip violated its sovereignty.
"Vietnam resolutely protests Chinese...action and demands that China immediately stop, not repeat similar actions," Vietnam Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh said in Hanoi, referring to China's Saturday test flight on the new airstrip Beijing had built on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands, an area which Vietnam claims. China in turn, rebutted Vietnam's protest by saying that the test flight was conducted to find out if the new airfield met the standards for civil aviation. "Relevant activity falls completely within China's sovereignty," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement. "The Chinese side will not accept unfounded accusations from the Vietnamese side," she added.
China had recently been developing the artificial airbases instead of aircraft carriers in coping to thread to China-Geo Military force. Long range bombers and long range missile may not suitable for islands's protection in the military eyes of either China or Japan military strategists, thus, airbases is the only choice for country's defense module.
"Vietnam resolutely protests Chinese...action and demands that China immediately stop, not repeat similar actions," Vietnam Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh said in Hanoi, referring to China's Saturday test flight on the new airstrip Beijing had built on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands, an area which Vietnam claims. China in turn, rebutted Vietnam's protest by saying that the test flight was conducted to find out if the new airfield met the standards for civil aviation. "Relevant activity falls completely within China's sovereignty," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement. "The Chinese side will not accept unfounded accusations from the Vietnamese side," she added.
China had recently been developing the artificial airbases instead of aircraft carriers in coping to thread to China-Geo Military force. Long range bombers and long range missile may not suitable for islands's protection in the military eyes of either China or Japan military strategists, thus, airbases is the only choice for country's defense module.
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