After Trump, China claims credit for mediating India-Pakistan conflict

After Washington, Beijing now wants a turn. Despite India’s repeated rejection of third-party intervention and firm pushback against Donald Trump’s mediation claims, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday said China had “mediated” India-Pakistan tensions in May. Speaking at the Symposium on the International Situation and China’s Foreign Relations in Beijing, Wang said the world had seen a sharp rise in conflicts and instability. “This year, local wars and cross-border conflicts flared up more often than at any time since the end of WWII. Geopolitical turbulence continued to spread,” he said. Wang said China had adopted an “objective and just…