China, US exchange views on Mideast

Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken exchanged views on the Palestine-Israel conflict during a telephone conversation on Wednesday, and they agreed to maintain communication on the Middle East situation.

Wang, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that the most urgent task is to achieve an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.

At the crossroads between war and peace, major countries need to uphold fairness and justice, maintain objectivity and rationality, and spare no effort to de-escalate the tension and prevent a larger-scale humanitarian disaster, he said.