China always stands on the side of peace and opposes war, Xi told United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, state news agency Xinhua said.
Xi told Guterres that the Gulf region was "facing a crossroads of war and peace" amid increasingly heated rhetoric between the US and Iran.
Last week, Iran shot down a US military drone. US President Donald Trump ordered a retaliatory strike on Iran late last week, only to call it off at the last minute.
Speaking to Guterres, Xi called for "calm and restraint," saying that players in the region needed to engage in dialogue.
"China has always stood on the side of peace and opposed war," he said.
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