A day earlier, he had called on countries including China, Japan, South Korea, France and Britain to send warships to the strait to help reopen the waterway. “I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is their territory,” he said last night. China will not be sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz, not least because some oil bound for the Chinese market is still coming through. Bloomberg reported yesterday that an Iranian supertanker with oil for China passed through the strait last Friday. “I am at the moment engaged in talking to them and my talking has yielded some results,” Jaishankar told the Financial Times.

Source: The Irish Times March 16, 2026 09:01 UTC