China urges calm as Xi-Trump talks loom amid Middle East turmoil

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi framed Beijing as a defender of peace and urged the United States to manage differences through dialogue ahead of Xi Jinping’s Beijing summit with Donald Trump, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Iran to prevent spillover and for all parties to return to equal negotiations while highlighting China’s stabilizing role in world affairs and its push for continued US–China engagement on trade and Taiwan amid European leaders visiting Beijing and China’s ties with Russia over Ukraine.