“If the Middle East is unstable, the world will not be at peace,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday. “If the conflict escalates further, not only will the conflicting parties suffer greater losses, but regional countries will also suffer greatly.”

Its website showed airlines were not flying over Iran, Iraq, Syria and Israel. They have chosen routings such as north via the Caspian Sea or south via Egypt and Saudi Arabia, eve

Israel briefly reopened its airspace on Sunday and is expanding flight operations on Monday, aiming to help tens of thousands of travellers stranded by widespread cancellations across the Middle East after the U.

Strait of Hormuz to be closed? The US has reached out to China to dissuade Iran to not shut the strait, calling it "economic suicide".

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday called on China to encourage Iran to not shut down the Strait of Hormuz after Washington carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Rubio's comments on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo" show came after Iran's Press TV reported that the Iranian parliament approved a measure to close the Strait of Hormuz,

China's Foreign Ministry has condemned the U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear sites overnight, saying in a social media post that the move violates "the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and international law,

China, which depends on Iran for oil and to counter American influence, has a lot to lose from a wider war. But there’s not much it can do about it.

China has criticized the US strike on Iranian nuclear facilities and reiterated that it’s willing to join international efforts to restore peace in the Middle East. Bloomberg's Minmin Low reports on the latest.