President Trump Postpones His China Trip To Focus On Conflict In Iran
Mar 17, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is delaying a diplomatic trip to China that was planned for months but began to unravel as he pressured Beijing and other world powers to form a military coalition to protect the vital Strait of Hormuz.
President Trump said Tuesday while meeting with Irish
Prime Minister MicheઠMartin in the Oval Office that he would be going to China in five or six weeks’ time instead of at the end of the month.
President Trump’s visit to China is seen as an opportunity to build on a fragile trade truce between the two superpowers, but it became tangled in his effort to find an endgame to his war in Iran.
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