Current Affairs
China Wants Strait of Hormuz Open Free of Curbs, USTR Greer Tells Bloomberg News
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated that China wants the Strait of Hormuz reopened without curbs or tolls, citing remarks from Chinese officials at the Beijing summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The U.S. expressed confidence that Beijing would limit material support for Iran as a fragile ceasefire holds in the Iran war. Nearly a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies travel through the Strait in normal times.
