Beijing, April 14 -- Amid the West Asia crisis and a tightening US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday met in Beijing, marking their first in-person meeting this year.

The discussions come amid escalating geopolitical tensions across multiple regions, including Ukraine, West Asia, Taiwan Strait, and the Korean Peninsula.

Opening the talks, Lavrov underscored the continuity of dialogue between the two sides, noting that while this was their first face-to-face meeting of the year, they had already maintained "several telephone conversations" that were "always substantive and detailed."

"This is our first in-person meeting this year, although we hav...