{"id":76710,"date":"2026-03-16T12:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/16\/strait-of-hormuz-australia-japan-no-ships"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:07:23","slug":"japan-and-australia-say-they-have-no-plans-to-send-ships-to-strait-of-hormuz-as-trump-increases-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76710","title":{"rendered":"Trump steps up pressure on European allies to help protect strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says it is \u2018only appropriate\u2019 for Europe to help, and warns failure to do so would be \u2018very bad\u2019 for Nato<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/16\/iran-war-live-updates-news-oil-trump-hormuz-dubai-airport-israel-targets\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has ratcheted up the pressure on European allies to help protect the strait of Hormuz, warning that Nato faces a \u201cvery bad\u201d future if its members fail to come to Washington\u2019s aid.<\/p>\n<p>The de facto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/13\/what-is-strait-hormuz-can-us-stop-iran-blocking-it\">closure of the vital waterway<\/a> by Tehran in retaliation for airstrikes by the US and Israel has proved catastrophic for global energy and trade flows, causing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/12\/middle-east-war-creating-largest-supply-disruption-in-the-history-of-oil-markets\">largest oil supply disruption in history<\/a> and soaring global oil prices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/16\/strait-of-hormuz-australia-japan-no-ships\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says it is \u2018only appropriate\u2019 for Europe to help, and warns failure to do so would be \u2018very bad\u2019 for NatoMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesDonald Trump has ratcheted up the pressure on European allies to help protect the strait of Hormuz, w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[43,6,666,221,526,88,470,449,222,3511,554,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-business","category-commodities","category-europe","category-france","category-japan","category-nato","category-oil","category-south-korea","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76710","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76719,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76710\/revisions\/76719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}