Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi said Sunday that applications of foreign military planes or warships to Chinese territory have been handled case by case, taking into consideration of "related factors."

Sun made the remark in response to a question why China did not approve a recent application of the United States to let its P-3C military plane to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for training.

Sun said that "as to applications of foreign military planes and military vessels to visit Hong Kong, we have taken into consideration of their specific requests and other related factors before we ratify them case by case."

(Xinhua News Agency 08/19/2001)