{"id":113977,"date":"2026-05-14T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113977\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:53:08","slug":"trump-says-xi-offered-help-on-iran-as-china-seeks-to-keep-hormuz-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113977\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Xi offered help on Iran as China seeks to keep Hormuz open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping offered to help broker an end to the Iran conflict and ensure freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, underscoring how Middle East tensions have become intertwined with a broader effort by Washington and Beijing to steady relations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity set to air on Thursday evening in the US, Trump said Xi had personally expressed willingness to assist amid mounting concerns over disruptions in one of the world\u2019s most important oil shipping lanes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cPresident Xi would like to see a deal made,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe did offer, he said \u2018if I can be of any help at all, I would like to be of help.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The remarks came as Trump and Xi sought to project warmer ties during the first day of their summit in Beijing, with both sides emphasising cooperation despite continuing tensions over Taiwan, trade and technology.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump said that he invited Xi to visit the White House on September 24, signalling an effort to sustain high-level engagement between the two powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping offered to help broker an end to the Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2369,39418,39417,7922,383,262,38,105,990,102,34,39416,49,39,101,4410],"class_list":{"0":"post-113977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-arabian-sea","9":"tag-asia-group","10":"tag-asia-society","11":"tag-asia-society-policy-institute","12":"tag-beijing","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-fox-news","16":"tag-george-chen","17":"tag-hormuz","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-jing-qian","20":"tag-middle-east","21":"tag-persian-gulf","22":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","23":"tag-taiwan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116574211785798533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}