{"id":109013,"date":"2026-04-22T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=109013"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:55:22","slug":"china-united-states-face-off-over-seized-iranian-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/china-united-states-face-off-over-seized-iranian-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2013United States face off over seized Iranian ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: China and the United States have come face to face over the US seizure of an Iranian-flagged ship in the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n<p>China has denied any involvement in the seizure of a ship by the US Navy, calling it baseless speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Strait of Hormuz issue, China and Saudi Arabia in a state of flux, urging a ceasefire<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Gao Jiaqin said during a press briefing that the ship seized by the US is a foreign container ship and has no connection to China.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, former UN Ambassador to the US Nikki Haley had claimed that the Iranian-flagged ship intercepted in the US operation had departed from China and was transporting chemical materials for missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: China and the United States have come face to face over the US seizure of an Iranian-flagged ship in the Gulf of Oman. China has denied any involvement in the seizure of a ship by the US Navy, calling it baseless speculation. Strait of Hormuz issue, China and Saudi Arabia in a state of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":9863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40670],"class_list":["post-109013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-china-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109014,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109013\/revisions\/109014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}