Reports on China’s new construction activities in unoccupied features in the South China Sea were “completely untrue,” according to Beijing’s foreign ministry. “The Bloomberg report is completely untrue,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday at a press conference in Beijing, referring to the US-based news organization that carried the report.

Lee-Brago, P., & Villanueva, R. E. (2022, December 23). Beijing denies fresh construction activities in SCS. The Philippine Star, p. 2.