The U.S. Navy blockade of Iranian ports appeared to hold on Wednesday, with no Iranian-linked ships visibly able to leave the region since the blockade took effect 48 hours earlier, according to U.S. authorities and vessel-tracking firms. Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger examines what the war in Iran, including the blockade, means to China as the world’s biggest importer of Iranian oil. Video by David E. Sanger, Nikolay Nikolov, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Gilad Thaler, Coleman Lowndes, Jon Miller, David Seekamp, Rafaela Balster, Jordan Gantz and Stephanie Swart/The New York Times
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