Alleged on-going reclamation by China on Mischief Reef in the Spratly group of islands of the disputed South China Sea is shown in May 2015. - POOL/AFP/File / Ritchie B. Tongo
BEIJING: China’s Defence Ministry rejected queries by the US military as to why China had used a military aircraft to evacuate sick workers from a new airport on an island China has built in the disputed South China Sea.
CNN quoted Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis as saying it was unclear why China had used a military aircraft rather than a civilian one in the landing on Fiery Cross Reef.
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