U.S. Oil Benchmark Nudges $100 As Trump Demands Countries Send Warships To Police Strait Of Hormuz

China receives about 90% of its oil via the Strait of Hormuz, and President Trump suggested other countries should help 'police' the waterway with the U.S.; he did not name those countries and declined to say if China agreed. The comment is unconfirmed and speculative, raising energy-security and shipping-route implications but unlikely to move markets without concrete multinational commitments.

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China receives about 90% of its oil via the Strait of Hormuz, and President Trump suggested other countries should help 'police' the waterway with the U.S.; he did not name those countries and declined to say if China agreed. The comment is unconfirmed and speculative, raising energy-security and shipping-route implications but unlikely to move markets without concrete multinational commitments.