Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday talked over phone about the flare-up of the Middle East crisis as well as the Sino-U.S. relations. Yang expressed China's deep concern about the latest escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the v...

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi speaks during a New Year reception held by the Minitry of Foreign Affairs of China, in Beijing, Dec. 28, 2008. China had "unprecedented dynamic interaction" with the rest of the world in 2008, receiving some 180 heads of state or government, Foreign Minist...