A blockade’s diplomatic cost


Trump and Xi in Busan, South Korea, last October. The two leaders are set for another meeting in Beijing next month. — Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

WHEN China declared that the US blockade of Iranian oil leaving the Strait of Hormuz was “dangerous and irresponsible”, it was a brief window into President Donald Trump’s latest challenge: how to keep the Iran conflict from upending an emerging detente with China.

Trump is expected to land in Beijing next month, in what has been imagined as a carefully-planned, highly-orchestrated effort to recast the relationship between the world’s two largest economies.

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