(From Reuters)
China on Wednesday landed two test flights on an island it has built in the South China Sea, four days after it angered Vietnam with a landing on the same runway in the disputed territory, the Xinhua state news agency said.
The two flights are likely to spark further condemnation from Vietnam, which launched a formal diplomatic protest over the weekend, and the Philippines, which said it was planning to do the same.
Both countries have claims to the area that overlap with that of China, which claims almost the whole of the South China Sea.
Xinhua said the two planes landed on an artificial island in the Spratly Islands on Wednesday morning. Read More