{"id":97801,"date":"2026-05-04T20:47:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97801\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:47:28","slug":"us-bessent-urges-china-to-help-open-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97801\/","title":{"rendered":"US\u2019 Bessent urges China to help open Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday pressed China to ramp up diplomatic pressure on Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz even as he stressed that the US has \u201cabsolute control\u201d over the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cLet\u2019s see [China] step up with some diplomacy and get the Iranians to open the strait,\u201d Bessent said in a Fox News interview.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism and China has been buying 90 per cent of their energy, so they are funding the largest state sponsor of terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Asked whether the situation in Iran complicated the visit, the Treasury chief only said Trump has \u201cexchanged correspondence\u201d with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the conflict and that the leaders\u2019 summit would offer the chance for both sides to trade views in person.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe\u2019ve had great stability in the relationship and again, that comes from the two leaders having great respect for each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Treasury Scott Bessent says China\u2019s energy purchases from Iran help fund what he calls the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bb3fb810-1c93-4378-8194-f6c889b1024a_1b3471f5.jpg\" title=\"US Treasury Scott Bessent says China\u2019s energy purchases from Iran help fund what he calls the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Photo: AP\"\/>US Treasury Scott Bessent says China\u2019s energy purchases from Iran help fund what he calls the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Photo: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday pressed China to ramp up diplomatic pressure on Iran to open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[383,262,38,105,102,34,2288,101,69,2554,6170,153,75,11378,986],"class_list":{"0":"post-97801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-fox-news","12":"tag-hormuz","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-scott-bessent","15":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","16":"tag-tehran","17":"tag-un","18":"tag-un-security-council","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-central-command","21":"tag-us-treasury","22":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116518272693353729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97801","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=97801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}