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Trump is pushing a Hormuz coalition to break Iran's oil blockade.
President Trump is ramping up.
Back to the...
To the news news is ramping up to pressure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
As you know, this is like a main deal for crude oil that passes through there.
Iran has blocked tankers from that Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia.
So Trump is trying to get together other countries to help pay for it and also help not just pay for it, but help secure it.
China, he's asking China, he's asking Japan.
South Korea, France, the UK, and NATO to be allies to send warships and to help escort commercial ships.
He's even indicated, so he had, President Trump had a planned trip to China on January 31st.
He is now claiming that he is no longer going to go to China.
March.
during that time unless China starts helping.
And one country that's already indicated that they are unwilling to help in the coalition is Australia, which, you know, Stella feels very strongly about that.
She wanted to get involved.
Yeah.
Well, he brings up the 90% of Chinese, you know, crude oil goes through there.
So it's not like an exports as well.
So it's not like it doesn't affect China.
China has been neutral on the war has not shown, you know,