Trump urges China to help address Strait of Hormuz crisis
President Donald Trump said he could postpone a planned summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as he urges Beijing to help address disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz caused by the conflict with Iran.“I think China should help too because China gets 90% of its oil from the Straits,” Trump said in an interview with the Financial Times published Sunday, adding that he would prefer to know Beijing’s position before a planned meeting between the two leaders later this month.
“We’d like to know before that. It’s [two weeks is] a long time,” Trump said. “We may delay,” he added of the trip to China, without specifying how long any delay could last.
Trump’s remarks come a day after he called on several countries, including China, France, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom, to join what he described as a broader “team effort” to reopen the strategic chokepoint, which handles roughly a fifth of the world’s oil supply.