Transport Minister Anthony Loke clarified that his Chinese counterpart Li Xiaopeng had invited his wife to sit in a meeting held in Beijing.

"If the Chinese minister allowed her to sit there, what's MCA's problem?" he told a press conference in Putrajaya this evening.

He was responding to MCA who questioned Loke's wife Ng Chi Ling's presence at the meeting last month.

Meanwhile, the minister's special functions officer Chung Yi Fan also responded to MCA regarding the duration of the trip.