US official says it is important for Xi Jinping to have the strait of Hormuz open and is confident China will try to limit material support for Iran
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Returning to US trade representative Jamieson Greer and the Iran war, he said the US was confident China would do whatever it could to limit material support for Tehran amid the war.
Asked on Bloomberg TV on Friday if he thought Xi Jinping would pressure Tehran and help the US get the strait of Hormuz reopened, Greer said:
First of all, it’s really important for China to have the strait of Hormuz open – no tolling, no military control. That was clear from the meeting, so we welcome that.
With respect to Chinese involvement with Iran, our view is the Chinese are being very pragmatic – they don’t want to be on the wrong side of this. They want to see peace in that area, President Trump wants to see peace in that area, so we have a lot of confidence that they will do what they can to limit any kind of material support for Iran.”
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