China has accused Australia of covering up an incursion into Chinese airspace in response to Canberra’s earlier claims about an “unsafe and unprofessional” incident involving the two nations’ military aircraft over the South China Sea.

Chinese Ministry of National Defence spokesperson Jiang Bin told reporters on Tuesday that China had lodged a “solemn” complaint with Australia over what he said was Australia’s “attempts to cover up the egregious illegal intrusion of its military aircraft into Chinese airspace”.

Jiang claimed that a statement issued by Australia’s Defence Force on Monday “shifts the blame onto China”, and called on Australia to “restrain the actions of its frontline naval and air forces, and avoid damaging the relations between China and Australia”.

The response from Chi

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