{"id":76703,"date":"2026-03-16T01:24:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/15\/uk-china-japan-countries-debating-strait-of-hormuz-ships-iran-you-now"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:24:50","slug":"trumps-call-for-allied-deployment-to-strait-of-hormuz-meets-muted-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76703","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s call for allied deployment to strait of Hormuz meets muted response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/15\/iran-war-news-live-updates-us-israel-middle-east-crisis-latest-kharg-island\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Countries including the UK, Japan, China and South Korea have said they are still considering their options but without making commitments after the US president, Donald Trump, urged them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/mar\/14\/trump-warships-strait-of-hormuz-iran-oil-shipping\">to send warships<\/a> to the strait of Hormuz to secure the vital shipping route.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called on the UK, China, France, Japan, South Korea and other countries to send ships to the waterway, the world\u2019s busiest shipping route, which is being violently blockaded by Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/15\/uk-china-japan-countries-debating-strait-of-hormuz-ships-iran-you-now\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping routeMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesCountries including the UK, Japan, China and South Korea have said they are still considering their options&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,415,3512,1244,448,88,212,1945,222,3511,554,52,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-ed-miliband","category-emmanuel-macron","category-iran","category-japan","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-oil-and-gas-companies","category-south-korea","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-trump-administration","category-uk-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76712,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76703\/revisions\/76712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}