Special envoy to China Tiong King Sing said veteran journalist A Kadir Jasin's motives for querying the government's response to recent incursions by Chinese vessels should be questioned.

"Foreign vessels have been suspected of violating our territorial waters from time to time, both during the BN and Pakatan Harapan tenures (as the federal government).

"Kadir's decision to choose this time specifically to question this government's response to these incursions makes one doubt his motives," he said in a statement today...