Plane detention an espionage attempt: China

Beijing has taken strong exception to the detention of a China-bound United Arab Emirates Air Force aircraft at Kolkata airport earlier this week. It called the incident an attempt by Indian officials “to spy on Chinese military secrets”.

“It (the detention of the aircraft) violated diplomatic rights because the cargo on board belonged to China,” said Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party-owned English newspaper.

The report, quoting Dai Xu, whom the daily identified as a military expert, added that the arms were being taken back to China from Abu Dhabi after a weapon expo. More