{"id":150800,"date":"2026-05-04T17:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150800"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:42:44","slug":"us-bessent-urges-china-to-help-open-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150800","title":{"rendered":"US\u2019 Bessent urges China to help open Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS 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.<br \/>\n\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.<br \/>\n\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&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3352414\/us-bessent-urges-china-help-open-strait-hormuz?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 PostUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday pressed China to ramp up diplomatic pressure on Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz even as&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\/150800"}],"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=150800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}