BREAKING NEWS: US President Trump told the Financial Times that if Beijing does not help to ease tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, he might delay his visit to China later this month.
Comment: The United States is the one who started the conflict, yet it demands China "to ease the strait". This is essentially shifting the blame for its own mess onto China, using the visit to China as a bargaining chip to force China to take sides and share the military and political costs. This threat reveals the overextension and declining capabilities of the US strategy in the Middle East, as well as the short-sightedness and selfishness of its diplomacy. China will not be intimidated, nor will it pay for America's hegemony.
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