The conflict between India and Pakistan in May was among the contentious matters mediated by Beijing in 2025, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi claimed on Tuesday.
“This year, local wars and cross-border conflicts flared up more often than at any time since the end of WWII [World War II],” Wang said at a conference on China’s foreign relations in Beijing. “Geopolitical turbulence continued to spread.”
To build lasting peace, “we have taken an objective and just stance, and focused on addressing both symptoms and root causes”, the Chinese foreign minister added.
“Following this Chinese approach to settling hotspot issues, we mediated in northern Myanmar, the Iranian nuclear issue, the tensions between Pakistan and India, the issues between Palestine and Israel, and the recent conflict between Cambodia and Thailand,” he claimed.
Wang also said that the relations between New Delhi and Beijing had picked up “good momentum”, citing China having invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Tianjin in August for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs has not reacted to the claim made by Wang. But it has maintained that the ceasefire with Islamabad was not the result of mediation. The decision to stop the firing was taken after the Pakistani director-general of military operations had called his Indian counterpart, New Delhi has said.
It has repeatedly rejected claims…
Source: China claims it mediated India-Pakistan conflict in May
