{"id":147973,"date":"2026-03-16T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147973"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:00:10","slug":"china-under-pressure-as-trump-ties-high-stakes-summit-to-strait-of-hormuz-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147973","title":{"rendered":"China under pressure as Trump ties high-stakes summit to Strait of Hormuz crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTrump\u2019s threat to postpone his Beijing trip unless China helps break Iran\u2019s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has fused two crises Beijing had sought to keep apart: the unravelling of Middle East stability and the fragile thaw in US\u2013China relations.<br \/>\nChina, the world\u2019s largest buyer of Gulf oil, is now being forced to weigh its economic reliance on stable energy routes against its tradition of non\u2011interference in diplomacy, according to observers.<br \/>\nWhile Beijing is eager to host Trump for a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3346792\/china-under-pressure-trump-ties-high-stakes-summit-strait-hormuz-crisis?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTrump\u2019s threat to postpone his Beijing trip unless China helps break Iran\u2019s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has fused two crises Beijing had&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147973"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}