bound ship amid US missile material claims

China denies link to seized Iran-bound ship amid US missile material claims China rejected claims linking it to a US-seized ship allegedly carrying missile materials to Iran, as tensions rise over the incident in the Gulf and warnings from both Washington and Tehran escalate. By PTI China on Tuesday denied any links to the Iranian cargo ship seized by the US in the Gulf allegedly containing chemical materials to manufacture missiles. “To my knowledge, this is a foreign-flagged container ship. China opposes any malicious linking and hype,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a press briefing here reacting to…