US Official Thanks China for Iran Efforts, Touts Boeing Deal

Senator Steve Daines thanked Beijing for encouraging Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as the US searches for an off-ramp to a nine-week war that’s roiled global energy markets.

The Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation on a trip to China, one week before US President Donald Trump is expected to hold a summit there with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.