On Radio National Breakfast, Bryan Clark discusses the impact of Iran’s three-week-long closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has brought shipping to a halt and hampered a fifth of the world’s oil supplies. He talks about which nations will send their navy to protect the strait’s shipping lanes.
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A truck drives through the Alataw Pass Comprehensive Bonded Zone in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bortala in Xinjiang, the Alataw Pass borders Kazakhstan. (Getty Images)