{"id":49493,"date":"2026-04-13T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49493"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:17:44","slug":"china-urges-restraint-over-us-blockade-of-strait-of-hormuz-backs-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49493","title":{"rendered":"China urges restraint over US blockade of Strait of Hormuz, backs talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>China and Pakistan had backed peace talks in March while urging an immediate ceasefire in the Iran war and restoration of normal navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for about a fifth of global oil and gas supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Guo rejected reports that China had plans to supply weapons to Iran as &#8220;groundless smears and malicious associations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Trump threatened immediate tariffs of 50 per cent, with no exemptions, on imports from countries supplying Iran with military \u200bweapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China has consistently taken a prudent and responsible approach to arms exports,&#8221; Guo said, adding that its strict controls were in line with domestic laws and international obligations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/east-asia\/us-blockade-strait-hormuz-china-urges-restraint-talks-6053206\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China and Pakistan had backed peace talks in March while urging an immediate ceasefire in the Iran war and restoration of normal navigation in the Strait&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}