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“Are You With Us Or Iran?” - Trump Puts NATO & China On Notice Over Strait of Hormuz Shutdown

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Trump pressures NATO and China to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open as tensions with Iran escalate. The panel debates whether Trump is showing strategic leverage or signaling weakness, and what a potential shutdown of the world’s most important oil chokepoint could mean for global energy and geopolitics.

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0:00.0

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0:15.3

Trump warns NATO presses China to help reopen Strait of Hormuz.

0:19.3

What does this really mean?

0:21.4

Tom's got some thoughts.

0:22.7

Rob, if you want to play the clip, and then I'll read the story.

0:25.7

Like, as an example, in many cases, that NATO countries.

0:29.1

We're always there for NATO.

0:31.2

We're helping them with Ukraine.

0:34.2

It's got a notion in between us.

0:37.2

It doesn't affect us, but we've helped them.

0:39.3

And be interesting to see what country wouldn't help us with a very small endeavor,

0:45.3

which is just keeping the straight open.

0:47.3

That, by comparison, it's small because Iran has very little firepower left.

1:12.4

Okay, so to read this, Trump warned NATO of a very bad future if allies do not help open up the Strait of Hormuz and said he may also delay a plan summit with President Xi in comments published in Financial Times on Sunday.

1:16.9

I think China could help too because China gets 90% of its oil from straits.

1:21.9

Trump told the newspaper, adding he would prefer to know Beijing's position before the planned visit, we may delay.

1:24.3

He set up the trip.

1:26.0

Scott Besson and Chinese vice premier, he, uh, Lefeng. I thought it meant like his lifeline, but that's actually his name. He, H-E, L-I-F-V-N-G, Lefeng. He, Lefeng, this is not like desalienation. This is something of desalination. We're not talking about that.

1:44.7

This is literally how his name is spelled. Rob, can you please highlight the name so everybody can see how his name is highlighted right there? He's living his best of life. And zoom in as close as possible. Zoom in if you can. He, Lefeng, great name. I mean, it's really a great name if you think about it. Wrapped up the first of two days of talks in Paris on Sunday to iron out kinks in their

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