China Calls Report About Spy Post on Myanmar Island ‘Nonsense’

Fshing boats are seen along a beach in the Bay of Bengal.

Photographer: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images

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China has hit back at a report that India confronted Myanmar in recent months with intelligence showing that Beijing is providing help building a surveillance post on a remote island in the Bay of Bengal.

“The relevant report is sheer nonsense,” the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said Monday in response to a question from Bloomberg News on the WeChat social media app.