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There are moments in international politics when geography becomes destiny. The Strait of Hormuz—barely 33 kilometres wide at its narrowest point—is once again one of those places. Nearly 20 per cent of the world’s oil passes through that narrow artery every day, carrying not just energy, but the fragile assumptions of global order. Today, it is no longer merely a shipping lane. It is the stage upon which the United States, China, Iran, Israel, and the Gulf monarchies are performing a dangerous new act of strategic theatre.
The recent US–China summit, overshadowed by Donald Trump’s provocative diplomacy toward Iran, revealed something deeper than another round of transactional great-power bargaining.
