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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