3 Reasons Why China Didn’t Join the U.S.-Led Coalition to Counter Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea

Chinese military commentator Yun Hua explained in a recent video that the attacks on ships in the Red Sea is accelerorating the shift to overland rail links built by China as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Image via the Middle East Media Research Institute.

There was some dismay/confusion in the U.S. and Europe when China opted not to join the multinational coalition to combat Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.

A lot of Western analysts supposed, incorrectly, that it would be in China’s economic interests to stabilize the Red Sea given how much trade to/from China passes through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea — which is, of course, true — particularly Chinese auto shipments.

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