{"id":76715,"date":"2026-03-16T21:50:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/16\/china-us-trump-visit-strait-of-hormuz"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:17:11","slug":"china-still-communicating-with-us-over-trump-visit-despite-talk-of-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76715","title":{"rendered":"Trump asks China if visit to Beijing can be delayed a month due to Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president had earlier hinted trip could be put on hold if President Xi does not help unblock the strait of Hormuz<\/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>Trump has asked to delay his planned visit to Beijing by about a month due to the Iran war, after earlier hinting he might put the trip off if his prospective hosts do not help to unblock the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The US president\u2019s summit with China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, was meant to take place at the end of March but Trump told reporters in the White House on Monday: \u201cBecause of the war I want to be here, I have to be here, I feel. And so we\u2019ve requested that we delay it a month or so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/16\/china-us-trump-visit-strait-of-hormuz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president had earlier hinted trip could be put on hold if President Xi does not help unblock the strait of HormuzMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesTrump has asked to delay his planned visit to Beijing by about a month due to the Iran war, after earli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,50,415,3511,45,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/76715","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76723,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76715\/revisions\/76723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}