Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Germany and deliver a speech at its China session, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The attendance of Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, is at the invitation of MSC Chairman Wolfgang Ischinger, the spokesperson said in a statement posted on the ministry's official website.
The three-day 62nd MSC opened on Friday, with transatlantic rifts under the spotlight.
The Munich Security Report 2026, titled "Under Destruction," was released in Berlin on Monday. The report describes a world entering an era of "wrecking-ball politics," in which outright destruction has become mainstream, and the global order is under destruction.
The event, which began in 1963 as a venue for a "transatlantic family meeting," is now becoming a barometer of the fragmentation of the global security order.
Chinese foreign minister to deliver speech at Munich Security Conference's China session
Global food commodity prices climbed for a second consecutive month in March, driven mainly by higher energy costs linked to escalating conflict in the Middle East, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said in report released on Friday.
The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a basket of globally traded food commodities, averaged 128.5 points in March, up 2.4 percent from February and 1.0 percent above its level a year ago.
According to the report, the FAO Vegetable Oil Index and Sugar Price Index showed the largest increases, up 5.1 percent and 7.2 percent, respectively.
The FAO Cereal Price Index increased by 1.5 percent from the previous month, driven primarily by higher world wheat prices, which rose 4.3 percent.
The FAO Meat Price Index rose by 1.0 percent from the previous month, and the FAO All-Rice Price Index declined by 3.0 percent in March, according to the report.
FAO stated that rising energy and fertilizer prices have been driving up agricultural input costs.
If the conflict stretches beyond 40 days, farmers will have to choose to farm the same with fewer inputs, plant less, or switch to less intensive fertilizer crops, according to FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero.
These choices will hit future yields and shape food supply and commodity prices for the rest of this year and beyond, Torero said.
Global food prices rise for 2nd consecutive month in March amid Middle East conflict: FAO
