President Donald Trump declared that China has agreed to halt weapons transfers to Iran, dismissing growing intelligence worries and projecting confidence ahead of a high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping next month.
According to Sean Hannity, the President wrote on Wednesday, China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz. I am doing it for them, also And the World, adding, They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran.
President Xi will give me a big, fat, hug when I get there in a few weeks, Trump continued, emphasizing what he cast as unusually close coordination between Washington and Beijing. We are working together smartly, and very well! Doesnt that beat fighting???
The remarks come as Trump prepares to travel to Beijing for a May 1415 summit with Xi, a meeting postponed amid the escalating war in Iran and mounting global anxiety over energy security. At the center of the diplomatic maneuvering lies the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow but indispensable artery for the global economy.
Roughly one-fifth of the worlds seaborne oil flows through this corridor each year, with China depending on it for nearly half of its crude imports, giving Beijing a powerful incentive to cooperate. For a President who favors strength over appeasement, leveraging U.S. naval power to keep that route open underscores a belief that peace is best preserved through deterrence, not concession.
Trump has cast his naval pressure campaign as a service to the international community, arguing that his efforts to secure the waterway benefit allies and adversaries alike. As the summit approaches, conservatives will see in this moment a validation of assertive American leadership: using hard power and clear red lines to stabilize a volatile region while pressing China to act less like an enabler of Tehran and more like a stakeholder in global order.
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