Japan says bar high for sending warships to protect Gulf oil lane
Donald Trump
Japan is the fifth-biggest importer of oil - 95 per cent of it from the Middle East and 70 per cent passing through the Strait of Hormuz, which is now effectively closed. TOKYO: A senior Japanese policy adviser said on Sunday (Mar 15) that the threshold is "extremely high" for Tokyo to send its warships to help protect a shipping lane for oil in the Middle East, hours after US President Donald Trump's call for other countries to do so . Two weeks after the United States and Israel attacked Iran,
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