South China Sea dispute: China summons US diplomat

China has summoned a chief US agent in a altercation over the South China Sea.

On Friday, the US accompaniment administration said Beijing was risking an accretion in tensions by establishing a billet on one of the acknowledged Paracel islands.

The Chinese adopted admiral said the US animadversion "disregarded the facts" and "sent a actively amiss signal".

China lays affirmation to genitalia of the sea, overlapping areas claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia.

On Friday, the US accompaniment administration said it was ecology the bearings in the breadth closely, abacus that China's enactment of a aggressive billet on Woody Island runs "counter to collaborative adept efforts to boldness differences and accident added ascent tensions in the region".

On Saturday, China's Assistant Adopted Minister Zhang Kunsheng said the US account "disregarded the facts, abashed appropriate with wrong, beatific a actively amiss arresting and did not advice with efforts by accordant parties to advance accord and adherence in the South China Sea or the Asia Pacific".

There are anticipation to be cogent oil and gas affluence beneath genitalia of the South China Sea accountable to buying disputes.

In contempo years, tensions over the affair accept added amidst growing assertiveness from China over its amphibian claims.