FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin United States President Donald Trump discussed the Strait of Hormuz and the US-Israel conflict with Iran during meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as negotiations to end the war and secure the key shipping route remain stalled. Ahead of Trump’s departure from Washington, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused China of “funding the largest state sponsor of terrorism,” while Trump announced he planned to have a long talk with Xi. At the same time, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on five Chinese “teapot” refineries accused of processing Iranian oil. RelatedNews China wants Strait of Hormuz completely open and unrestricted Japanese oil tanker successfully transits Strait of Hormuz var jnews_module_21372828_0_6a06e0367a6ba = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21372828","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"87,4346,1582,131","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_im