But what I do want to parse, and there’s a false narrative out there that if the meetings are delayed, it wouldn’t be delayed because the president’s demanded that China police the Straits of Hormuz… That’s completely false. The president wants to remain in D.C. to coordinate the war effort and that, you know, traveling abroad at a time like this may not be optimal… It would be a decision the president made as commander-in-chief to stay in the White House or to stay in the United States while this war is being prosecuted. Given the recent reporting that the visit preparations may have been behind schedule, and the relatively positive tone coming from both sides out of the US-China meetings in Paris over the last two days, this delay is probably not that big a deal.
Author: Bill Bishop
Published at: 2026-03-16 23:40:10
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