China rejects report of building military training camp in Wakhan corridor

  BEIJING, Aug 29 (APP):China on Wednesday rejected a report that it had begun to build a military training camp in the Wakhan corridor in Afghanistan. “It is understood that the relevant reports are not true,” Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson Hua Chunying said while responding to a question in that regard during her regular briefing here. The corridor was a narrow strip of inhospitable and barely accessible land extending about …

 

BEIJING, Aug 29 (APP):China on Wednesday rejected a report that it had begun to build a military training camp in the Wakhan corridor in Afghanistan.
“It is understood that the relevant reports are not true,” Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesperson Hua Chunying said while responding to a question in that regard during her regular briefing here.
The corridor was a narrow strip of inhospitable and barely accessible land extending about 350km (220 miles) from the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan to China’s region of Xinjiang.

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