Marco Rubio: The Chinese Side Said They’re Not in Favor of Militarizing the Straits of Hormuz or a Tolling System, ‘That’s Our Position’

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RUBIO: “He did. And it was important because the Chinese side said they are not in favor of militarizing the Strait of Hormuz and they’re not in favor of a tolling system. And that’s our position. We don’t — we will never support an Iranian tolling system in the Strait of Hormuz, nor do we think they have a right to put mines in International Waters. And so, it’s good that we have alliance or at least agreement on that point. I think the fundamental question is what are we going to do about it? We have a resolution now before the United Nations, which hundred and something countries have cosigned. The Bahrainis are the sponsor, but we’re strongly behind it and been pushing very hard on it, and it very clearly makes those points. So we hope the Chinese will vote for it. Right now we haven’t gotten their commitment to vote for it yet at the United Nations. Maybe that’ll change after today’s meeting, I don’t know.”