According to the latest news from the Associated Press, an Israeli cargo ship sailing in the Red Sea made an escort request to the 45th batch of escort groups of the Chinese Navy, which was carrying out escort missions in the surrounding area, and asked the "Urumqi" ship of our army to provide escort.
Allegedly, our army decisively rejected the distress signal of the Israeli cargo ship, is the Associated Press news true?What the hell is the truth?
One: I'm **boat in**?
The 45 th batch of escort squadrons of the Chinese Navy, which is currently carrying out escort missions in the Red Sea, consists of three warships, including the missile destroyer "Urumqi," the missile frigate "Linyi," and the comprehensive supply ship "Dongpinghu."
At the beginning of the year, the 45th and 44th escort groups completed the task handover and began to carry out escort missions in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden.
The "Urumqi ship" belongs to the Type 052D missile destroyer, which comes from a destroyer detachment of the Northern Theater Navy, and is also the second 052D missile destroyer in service with the Northern Theater Navy. The "Urumqi" took part in the 39th and 45th escort formations, and this was the second time that the ship carried out an escort mission in the Gulf of Aden.
As the third-generation missile destroyer with the largest number of services in the Chinese Navy, the "Urumqi" has 64 vertical missile launchers, which can launch multiple types of missile equipment, including the YJ-18 anti-ship missile and the Haihongqi 9B ship-to-air missile, and has powerful ground strike, ship strike, and air defense capabilities.
The missile frigate "Linyi" also comes from a certain destroyer detachment of the Navy in the Northern Theater of Operations, which is a well-known star ship that has carried out escort and evacuation missions many times, and is the first batch of Type 054A missile frigates of the Chinese Navy.
The 054A missile frigate, like the 052D missile destroyer, is the Chinese Navy with the largest number of missile frigates, since the first ship 530 "Xuzhou" entered service, the 054A missile frigate has been in service for a full 40, has been widely installed in the PLA Navy's destroyer detachment and frigate detachment.
The Type 054A missile frigate is equipped with a 32-cell vertical missile launcher, which can launch a large number of Hongqi-16 regional ship-to-air missiles and Yu-8 anti-submarine missiles currently installed by our army, and has a strong multi-purpose combat capability.
Under normal circumstances, the Chinese Navy's destroyer formation mixes 054A missile frigates and Type 052D missile destroyers, so as to provide a relatively complete air defense system and anti-ship strike system for the formation, and such a combination has basically become the standard equipment of the Chinese Navy's escort formation to the Gulf of Aden.
According to the satellite ** on December 19, the 45th escort group of our army is still receiving supplies from the nearby port of Djibouti, so the Associated Press's statement is still somewhat confusing.
Two: What is the purpose of the Associated Press.
Since the Israeli army stepped up its military operations in Gaza, Israeli infantry brigades have carried out street fighting and storming missions in Gaza under the cover of tanks and air force.
In order to counter and blockade Israel, the Houthis launched missiles and rockets to carry out indiscriminate attacks on Israeli ships and Western freighters passing through the Gulf of Aden, the Bab el-Manbout Strait, the Red Sea and its surrounding waters.
The Houthis and other armed forces in the Middle East believe that the Israeli army is already mired in war in Gaza, and that only by attacking cargo ships related to Israel and Western countries and holding the strategic sea passage along the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait can they counter Israel and save the people of Gaza from fire and water, and this is the only possibility to defeat Israel.
A number of foreign ships have been attacked by the Houthis and suffered heavy losses, but so far no Chinese cargo ship has been hit by Houthi fire.
Presently. Four of the world's five major international shipping giants have suspended sea freighters from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, and only one is still struggling to support it.
The United States said that Israel's request for help from the Chinese Navy was rejected for two purposes:
First, the United States has pushed China against the Middle East, and if the Chinese navy accedes to the request of an Israeli cargo ship, and if the Houthis attack an Israeli cargo ship escorted by the Chinese navy, then the Chinese navy is responsible.
The Houthis not only attack Israeli cargo ships and other Western Western countries' cargo ships, but also regard the naval vessels of other countries that provide escort services as objects that can be attacked, so the Chinese Navy will fall into an embarrassing situation, and the Chinese naval vessels will have to make the following two choices, one is to attack the Houthi armed forces, which is obviously not our goal, and the other is to knock out their teeth and swallow their stomachs.
Second: If the Chinese Navy refuses other countries' requests for help, the United States and other Western countries will point the finger at China, believing that the Chinese Navy has violated the original intention of escorting ships, refusing to carry out escort operations against civilian ships, and leaving Israel and Western countries with a handle, so as to launch a ** attack on us.
So far, the Chinese Navy has not made any remarks or responses to this incident, and I don't think we need to reply to these so-called news reports, and the news that the United States claims that the Chinese Navy refuses to escort Israeli ships is most likely outright fake news.
The Chinese Navy has dispatched 45 escort groups to the Gulf of Aden to carry out escort missions, with the aim of maintaining the security of strategic sea lanes and protecting the important task entrusted by the United Nations to maintain regional stability.
The Chinese Navy's escort squadron in the Gulf of Aden has carried out important humanitarian relief missions such as evacuating overseas Chinese by sea and protecting food transportation for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
China's position on the Middle East issue is to urge all parties to cease fire as soon as possible and resolve the Middle East issue through peaceful and negotiated means, so as to prevent the countries of the Middle East from becoming the Colosseum of the great powers and becoming vassals of the great powers.
We are not willing to intervene in armed conflicts in the Middle East by force, let alone become vassals of the United States, Israel and other countries. The United States slandered the Chinese Navy for rejecting the distress signal of the Israeli ship, which is a pure conspiracy and ** means of attack, and we respond to them with only one word, "no". Project Sword