Abstract: The Silence That Speaks — China, Hormuz, and the Grammar of Maximum Optionality On the morning of 16 March 2026, in a third-floor briefing room at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China on Chaoyangmen Nanjiao Road in Beijing, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian faced three separate direct questions from … Leggi tutto The Architecture of Deliberate Silence: China’s Strategic Non-Commitment on the Strait of Hormuz, the Collapse of the US-Led Escort Coalition and the Grand Bargain Dynamics of the Trump-Xi Summit Horizon