Can China pressure Iran to reopen the strait?

The US President Donald Trump has launched what he’s calling ‘Project Freedom’, promising to rescue commercial ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz.

Already Iran has resumed firing on the UAE and the US says it’s destroyed Iranian military boats in the Strait.

Today, Jennifer Parker, a former Royal Australian Navy warfare officer, on the new phase of the Iran war. 

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Jennifer Parker, Adjunct Professor at the Defence and Security Institute at The University of Western Australia