US Official Thanks China for Iran Efforts, Touts Boeing Deal (1)

Senator Steve Daines thanked Beijing for encouraging Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as the US searches for an off-ramp to a nine-week war that’s roiled global energy markets.

The Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation on a trip to China, one week before US President Donald Trump is expected to hold a summit there with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

“I want to thank you for the meeting that you had yesterday with the Iranian Foreign Minister,” Daines told China’s top diplomat Wang Yi during a meeting on Thursday morning in ...