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Trump’s Iran Blockade Is Now a China Problem Trump sold the Iran blockade as leverage. In practice, it has become a global interference machine, and the next big stop is Beijing. The New York Times says the Strait of Hormuz is likely to still be shut when Trump arrives in China, which means the trip is no longer just about trade, Taiwan, or cyber conflict. It is now being dragged into the economic fallout of a war Beijing already called unnecessary. That is the kind of diplomatic self-sabotage Washington specializes in. Trump wanted to arrive in Beijing with the image of a strongman who could bend Iran, but instead he may show up as the man who made oil more expensive, complicated China’s energy supply, and then called the blockade “genius.” Xi Jinping is not taking this as a side issue. China has publicly urged the reopening of the strait, warned against a return to the “law of the jungle,” and has every reason to treat the blockade as both an energy threat and a precedent it does not want normalized. So the trip to China is becoming less of a grand reset and more of a courtroom scene. Trump walks in claiming maximum leverage, while the evidence keeps piling up that his war has turned into a tax on his own diplomacy. #Trump#China#Iran#Hormuz#XiJinping#trade 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸