UK & North American Foreign Ministers Call on China to Calm Maritime Tensions in Asia, Mideast

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron. Images via Xinhua.

The foreign ministers from the U.S., Canada, and Britain each appealed directly to their Chinese counterpart Wang Yi for Beijing to do more to calm surging tensions in both the Red Sea and the South China Sea.

Talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly, and Britain Foreign Secretary David Cameron were among half a dozen bilateral meetings that Wang held on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference over the weekend.

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