China and US agree Hormuz shouldn’t be ‘militarized

“The Chinese side said they are not in favor of militarizing the Straits of Hormuz, and they’re not in favor of a tolling system, and that’s our position,” America’s top diplomat said in Beijing after Trump, Xi and their delegations held more than two hours of talks.

During the wide-ranging interview, Rubio  who traveled to Beijing while under Chinese sanctions in what appears to be a first for a U.S. secretary of state said Trump and Xi also discussed the Beijing-claimed island of Taiwan and the case of Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy publisher in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong who was sentenced to 20 years in prison this year after his conviction in a landmark national security trial.