Blinken asks China to use ‘influence’ for Middle East calm

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia late on Friday on a whistlestop Arab tour to push for calm in the Middle East (Jacquelyn Martin) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Saturday on China, a partner of Iran, to use its influence to push for calm in the Middle East. The top US diplomat, who was visiting Saudi Arabia, had a "productive" one-hour telephone call with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. "Our message was that he thinks it's in our shared interest to stop the conflict from spreading." Miller told...