Trump Says He Didn’t Ask Xi to Pressure Iran on Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump said China’s Xi Jinping largely agrees with him on the risks of Iran becoming a nuclear power but said he did not push his Chinese counterpart to pressure Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

“He said that very strongly, they cannot have a nuclear weapon and he wants them to open up the strait,” Trump said Friday, speaking to reporters on Air Force One as he returned from a summit with Xi in China.