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Mission Accomplished!The Chinese Navy has been escorting ships in the Gulf of Aden for 15 years, advancing into the deep blue to defend peace, making great achievements and winning wide acclaim from the international community. Now that the United States is escorting ships in the Red Sea, why is China not involved?
According to information released by the South China Sea Fleet, December 26, 2023, is the 15th anniversary of the Chinese Navy's escort in the Gulf of Aden. In the past 15 years, the Chinese Navy has dispatched a total of 45 escort formations, more than 150 missile frigates, missile destroyers, and comprehensive supply ships, carrying 350,000 officers and soldiers made great achievements in the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean. They also include the Type 052B "Lanzhou" that I visited on the ship, which is the 10th batch, and recently we also sent the Type 071 dock landing ship with a displacement of 40,000 tons.
The Gulf of Aden is part of the Arabian Sea, near Yemen and Somalia, where piracy was rampant, mainly militants from coastal Somalia and other countries. On December 26, 2008, the Southern Theater of the Chinese Navy formed the first escort group from Sanya to carry out escort missions in the waters near the Gulf of Aden to safeguard regional peace.
In the past 15 years, the Chinese Navy's escort squadron has escorted more than 7,200 ships, more than half of which are foreign ships, escorted more than a dozen ships transporting humanitarian supplies for the World Food Programme, completed more than 1,600 escort missions, rescued and escorted nearly 100 ships of various types, as well as evacuation of overseas Chinese, international rescue, and so on.
Some people will ask, since China has achieved so much in the Gulf of Aden, which is also an escort, why does it not participate in the matter proposed by the United States to escort the Red Sea?
Last week, the United States, along with other allies, formed a so-called "joint fleet" to counter the Houthis. Unexpectedly, the Houthis did not panic at all, and Yemen** has reconciled with the Houthis and is ready to jointly defend against foreign enemies.
Seeing that the "10-nation coalition" could not play an effective role against the Houthis, the United States set its sights on China and wanted to drag us into the water. He said that the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea have also affected China's interests, and he hoped that China could play a constructive role in dealing with the Houthi threat. But apparently, the Chinese side ignored it. 
We do this for several reasons:
First of all, the main task of the Chinese Navy in the Gulf of Aden is to escort passing ships, and piracy in the waters of Somalia is rampant, and they only see interests in their eyes, and they have no reason to attack all merchant ships indiscriminately.
But the Red Sea crisis is, in the final analysis, a grudge between the Houthis and Israel, and the Houthis are not indiscriminately attacking all ships, but only those related to Israel. And the Houthis have said that Israeli ships should stop their atrocities against the Palestinian people if they do not want to be attacked.
Therefore, the Red Sea crisis is not a problem that can be solved by the United States pulling its allies to "flex their muscles", nor can it be solved by China's participation in this escort, the key to the problem lies in what Israel does, if the United States really uses force against the Houthis, causing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to spill over, the situation will become even worse.
Second, if China joins the U.S., it will also mean that China is on Israel's side, which is diametrically opposed to China's position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
On the issue of the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, China has always stood on the side of fairness and justice, supported Arab countries in defending their own interests, and supported the independent establishment of Palestine.
Finally, if the Chinese Navy were to join the US-led Red Sea Fleet, it would do more harm than good. Behind the scenes, the United States is likely to turn its back on the so-called "China threat theory" and take the opportunity to hype up the so-called "China threat theory" and accuse China of having a naval formation in the waters of the Gulf of Aden. Moreover, those Western countries have also been spreading rumors that China is helping the Houthis, and it is clear that the United States can't wait to pull us into the game, but it is not at ease. 
The escort of the Chinese Navy in the Gulf of Aden is a great feat of practicing the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and a community with a shared future for the sea, and the US escort in the Red Sea is to support Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip. Therefore, the sentence is answered: the Tao is not the same.
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