Oh, I don't know. Maybe tell Tehran to knock it off?

There's no way that would work, and all the Gulf States would know that. The regime is fighting for its very existence. There's no way that China's going to be able to convince the regime to "knock it off," so none of those Gulf States are going to have any bad feelings towards China for not doing it. But they are very likely to have some raw feelings towards the U.S. for putting them through all this for very little gain.

You're actually talking to Dope1. Maybe you ask me instead of saying this?

Sure. Do you agree with Condi?

Suppose we end the war as follows: i) we agree to end the blockade and stop attacking Iran; ii) Iran agrees allows traffic to resume in the Strait at pre-war volumes; iii) we have an agreement to have nuclear talks. There's no actual nuclear agreement in place, and no obligation for the talks to embrace missiles or proxies, and (probably) no enforcement mechanism to require Iran or the U.S. to participate in the talks.

Would you consider that a success, and thus approve of Trump deciding to take that deal?