India, July 14 -- China is willing to work with India to handle conflicts and differences properly, the country's foreign minister Wang Yi reportedly said in a conversation with India's S Jaishankar in Beijing on Monday during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers' Meeting.

Wang Yi was speaking as Jaishankar also stressed at the meeting that "differences should not become disputes, nor should competition ever become conflict".

The Chinese minister expressed his country's willingness to "safeguard the multilateral trading system" and thus ensure "stability of the global production and supply chain with India".

Besides, of course, the last few years' hostilities between India and China, Wang Yi's comments come als...