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Trump wants to postpone China trip due to Iran war
Donald Trump he told about his travel Chinese to meet with the country’s leader this month, Xi JinpingIt may be delayed by “up to a month”.
But a key Trump administration official insisted the move was not to pressure Beijing to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump said:
We are talking to China. I would love to, but I want to be here because of the war.
We have asked to postpone it for a month or so and I look forward to meeting with him. We have an ongoing war. I think it’s important that I’m here. So we may have delayed this a little bit, not a lot.
Trump’s treasury secretary Scott Bessenthad raised doubts about the journey before, but He insisted this was not about pressuring Beijing to help lift the block Strait of HormuzHe tells CNBC:
We will see if the visit will take place as planned. But what I want to parse is this; There is a false narrative that if the meetings are postponed, they will not be postponed because the president has requested that China monitor the Straits of Hormuz.
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The United Arab Emirates’ air defenses are currently responding to missile and drone attacks from Iran, the Gulf nation’s defense ministry said.
Posted on social media Sounds can be heard coming from air defense systems intercepting ballistic missiles and warplanes intercepting unmanned aerial vehicles and circulating ammunition.
Trump wants to postpone China trip due to Iran war
Donald Trump he told about his travel Chinese to meet with the country’s leader this month, Xi JinpingIt may be delayed by “up to a month”.
But a key Trump administration official insisted the move was not to pressure Beijing to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump said:
We are talking to China. I would love to, but I want to be here because of the war.
We have asked to postpone it for a month or so and I look forward to meeting with him. We have an ongoing war. I think it’s important that I’m here. So we may have delayed this a little bit, not a lot.
Trump’s treasury secretary Scott Bessentraised doubts about the journey before, but He insisted this was not about pressuring Beijing to help lift the block Strait of HormuzHe tells CNBC:
We will see if the visit will take place as planned. But what I want to parse is this; There is a false narrative that if the meetings are postponed, they will not be postponed because the president has requested that China monitor the Straits of Hormuz.
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Hello and welcome to our ongoing live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its repercussions on the region, the world, and the global economy.
Here are the latest developments:
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A wave of drone and rocket attacks targeted the US embassy in Baghdad early Tuesday, Iraqi security sources said.. They described it as the most intense attack using at least five drones since the attacks began, Reuters reported. A witness was quoted as saying a powerful explosion was heard in the Iraqi capital.
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Air traffic operations in the United Arab Emirates returned to normal following the temporary closure of airspace early TuesdayThe Gulf country’s aviation authority said this, as quoted by the state news agency. The UAE defense ministry previously said the country’s air defenses responded to missiles and drones from Iran.
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Donald Trump says he will announce countries “soon” that agree to help the US reopen the Strait of HormuzHe criticized many of its allies, including NATO and Britain, who have so far refused to get involved. He told reporters in the Oval Office that South Korea, Japan and China should help the United States. He warned NATO faced a “very bad” future without his help and said he was “not happy” with Britain.
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Meanwhile, allies responded by saying “this is not a NATO war”, while the EU insisted it had “no desire” to extend its naval mission to the Strait of Hormuz. While German Chancellor Friedrich Merz previously said that this war was “not NATO’s issue”, NATO said that “allies are taking action to provide additional security in the Mediterranean”. British prime minister Keir Starmer had previously opposed Trump’s call to send warships to the strait, saying that Britain “will not be dragged into a wider war” but was working on a plan to reopen the strait with “allies”.
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Trump also said the war would be “completed” soonHe said it won’t happen this week but “it won’t last long.”
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US vice president JD Vance deflected and attacked the media when asked if he supported Trump’s war against Iran, given his previous criticism of US open-ended foreign interventionism.. This followed reports in the US media that he had privately expressed doubts and advised Trump not to attack Iran. Vance accused the media of trying to “drive a wedge” between him and the president and repeated Trump’s claim that Tehran is close to developing nuclear weapons. “I trust President Trump to get the job done,” he said.
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Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi denied recent contact with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and said their last contact was before the US attack on Iran.. He wrote of This follows Axios’ report that the direct communication channel between Witkoff and Araghchi had been reactivated in recent days and that Araghchi had attempted to contact Witkoff about ending the war.
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The leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Canada and Italy issued a joint statement expressing “serious concerns” after Israel launched a land invasion of Lebanon. They called for meaningful participation by Israeli and Lebanese representatives to negotiate a sustainable political solution. They warned that a significant Israeli ground offensive would have devastating humanitarian consequences, adding that it could lead to a protracted conflict with “devastating humanitarian consequences.”
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Earlier on Monday, the IDF announced that its troops had begun what it called “limited and targeted” ground operations (ground operations) against Hezbollah strongholds in Southern Lebanon.He told hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians that they could not return to their homes.
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Recent reports indicate that Israeli attacks have killed at least 850 people in Lebanon, including at least 107 children, and displaced more than a million people..
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Operations at the UAE’s Shah gas and oil field were stopped following a fire caused by a drone attack. Abu Dhabi officials said the fire was under control on Monday night.
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Qatar said it intercepted the second wave of missiles from Iran following the attack early on Monday.
