India, Dec. 31 -- Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on Tuesday claimed that tensions between India and Pakistan were among the list of issues "mediated" by Beijing this year. However, this claim has been described as "bizarre" by people familiar with the matter who said that China played no role in the ceasefire.

India and Pakistan were involved in an intense military standoff in May after a terror attack in the Pahalgam valley of Jammu and Kashmir on April 22 killed 26 civilians. India retaliated through Operation Sindoor, which targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

China's foreign minister made the claim while speaking at the "Symposium on the International Situation and China's Foreign Relations" in...