{"id":76639,"date":"2026-03-08T16:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/08\/chinas-foreign-minister-says-iran-war-should-never-have-happened"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T07:16:39","slug":"chinas-foreign-minister-says-iran-war-should-never-have-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76639","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s foreign minister says Iran war \u2018should never have happened\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Wang Yi cautioned against a return to the \u2018law of the jungle\u2019 but stopped short of criticising Trump directly <\/p>\n<p>War in the Middle East \u201cshould never have happened\u201d, China\u2019s foreign minister Wang Yi has declared, even as he struck a more conciliatory tone with the US ahead of a highly anticipated visit by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Regime change, a key stated aim of the US president as the US and Israel continue to attack Iran, \u201cwill find no popular support\u201d, Wang said on Sunday. \u201cA strong fist does not mean strong reason. The world cannot return to the law of the jungle,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/08\/chinas-foreign-minister-says-iran-war-should-never-have-happened\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Wang Yi cautioned against a return to the \u2018law of the jungle\u2019 but stopped short of criticising Trump directly War in the Middle East \u201cshould never have happened\u201d, China\u2019s foreign minister Wang Yi has declared, even as he struck a more conciliatory ton&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,415,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76640,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76639\/revisions\/76640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}