'ON THE VERGE': Gen Keane warns of ANOTHER miscalculation | Recap

Welcome back. More flare-ups over the weekend between the US and Iran as questions loom about who is controlling the straight of Hormuz and markets react. President Trump told me yesterday morning um that Iran uh claiming to close the straight is inaccurate because the US already closed the straight of Hormuz with its naval blockade. Now, China is attempting to grow its stockpile of oil and gas with reports of a 2 million barrels a day surplus in the month of March. Meanwhile, new US intelligence finds Beijing is considering giving Iran advanced Xband radar systems, which would significantly improve Tyrron's ability to track incoming threats and track the United States. But of course, last week, President Trump told me that Xi Jinping responded to him in a letter saying that China is not sending weapons to the Iran to the Iran ians and will not. Joining me now is Gatesstone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang. Gordon, good to see you. This is getting interesting here with this uh shipping uh vessel which has been going back and forth between Iran and China and the US uh boarded it your reaction to all of these new flare ups over the weekend, Gordon? This was an important move, Maria, for the United States to seize that chip because obviously it was headed for an Iranian port. That's a clear violation of the blockade as announced by President Trump. And it's a it's an act of will that tells the world that the United States is as good as its word. And I'm sure that they heard that in Beijing. Um, you know, a lot of people say, "Oh, you know, the Chinese are playing this long game on the Iran war." Well, no. I mean, Cinping is a very shortterm ruler acting rash irrationally um most of the time and we have a sense that essentially Cinping doesn't have any cards to play. He cannot stop the United States. So, this is very interesting. I think the war is working out well because President Trump has decided that he's going to win it. Yeah. and and you know, he he said the other day in my interview that he's been so tough on on Beijing. You know, he talks a lot like this is my good friend. I'm going to go have this meeting on May 14th. But at the same time,