{"id":21650,"date":"2026-09-12T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/12\/china-brics-middle-east-tensions-xi-jinping-new-delhi\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:00:16","slug":"china-brics-middle-east-tensions-xi-jinping-new-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/12\/china-brics-middle-east-tensions-xi-jinping-new-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"China says ready to help ease Middle East tensions at BRICS summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the 18th BRICS summit in New Delhi that Beijing was ready to work with other members of the group to help reduce tensions in the Middle East. He said China was prepared to help achieve peace in the Middle East and the Gulf region.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese president described the wars in the Middle East and the Gulf region as causing &#8220;heavy losses&#8221; to people in the area. He also said continued military conflict was not in line with the interests of the international community.<\/p>\n<p>In another part of his remarks, Xi said China would take over the rotating BRICS presidency in 2027. According to him, the next summit of the group will also be hosted by China.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to BRICS&#8217; role, he said the group&#8217;s cooperation mechanism had become &#8220;the most influential platform in the world for cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 18th BRICS summit is taking place in New Delhi on Sept. 12 and 13, and India will hold the group&#8217;s rotating presidency in 2026. BRICS is a framework for cooperation among emerging economies, with its summits held periodically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping says China is ready to work with BRICS members to ease Middle East tensions and help achieve peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}