Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor has denied the party is sending a representative to speak at the ongoing 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (NCCPC).

Instead, he said it was merely an interview footage of him recorded and aired on China's official television station.

"I never said it. If you read Umno Online properly, I had already spoken because the China Government or CPC through their CGTN and CCTV had approached me," he said...