US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday that media reports suggesting any delay in US President Donald Trump visiting China was due to the president's demand that China help reopen the Strait of Hormuz were "completely false."

Bessent told CNBC that if a meeting was delayed, it would be a decision made by the president in his capacity as commander-in-chief, choosing to remain in the White House or elsewhere in the US while the Iran conflict continues.