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By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China has "challenged" reports that it deployed advanced surface-to-air missiles to a disputed island in the South China Sea, Australia's foreign minister said on Thursday, as Beijing told Canberra to stop interfering. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, the first senior Western official to visit China since the missile reports, said she had raised the issue of the South China Sea's militarization in her talks. "President Xi (Jinping) said in Washington last year that China did not intend to militarize the islands and we certainly hold China to that and that's been reiterated to me," she told reporters, after meeting China's top diplomat, State Councillor Yang Jiechi.More...