Five Points Against Five Points

China and Pakistan issued their peace framework today. Read it next to Iran’s own conditions and something becomes clear: this document does not answer Tehran’s demands. It refuses them.

Wang Yi and Ishaq Dar met in Beijing today, March 31, 2026. Dar had come directly from Islamabad, where two days earlier he had hosted the foreign ministers of Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to coordinate positions on the war. From those consultations he flew to Beijing and co-authored a document with China’s foreign minister. The Pakistan Foreign Offi…