China’s disinterest in Red Sea policing role underscores Beijing’s reluctance to back its rhetoric on Middle East peace with substantive action.

The Chinese government appears to be brushing off Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call for Beijing to assist an international coalition in protecting commercial shipping in the Red Sea from Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militias.

Beijing signaled that it has no interest in joining the Pentagon’s Operation Prosperity Guardian, a multinational force including Canada, the United Kingdom and Bahrain, in providing security for cargo ships under threat of Houthi attack.

  • naturalgasbad@lemmy.caEnglish
    111·
    11 months ago

    Chinese ships are still able to pass the Red Sea without threat, so there’s not really a reason for China to do anything…

  • RoboRay@kbin.social
    26·
    11 months ago

    I’m honestly surprised that the US cares about it… There’s near zero economic or strategic concerns left in that region for the US.