The war between Palestine and Israel intensified again in March next year, when Israel launched a massive air strike in Gaza, killing hundreds of civilians, including women and children. The United States, Israel's strong allies, condemned Iran's aggression against radical groups in Palestine, such as Hamas, Allah, the Houthis, and Iraqi militias, and gave them arms, information, and technology, and blocked the Palestinian-Israeli armistice agreement several times in the United Nations Security Council, and used a veto.
The U.S. move has been widely accused of acquiescing to Israel's brutal acts and adding to the instability of the situation in the Middle East. Instead of resting on its laurels, Iran and its military groups have launched a fierce campaign, claiming that Israel will retaliate against the Israeli state if it continues to kill the Palestinian people. Among them, the Houthis are even more extreme, and they have launched attacks on Israeli commercial vessels passing through the Red Sea in order to put pressure on Israel.
The Houthi attacks have alarmed the United States, and the Red Sea is the world's main shipping route, with thousands of ships passing through it each year, including those of the United States and its allies. Once the Red Sea is destroyed, it will have a huge impact on the economic and trade development of all countries in the world. To this end, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that the United States will establish a Red Sea Fleet and, with the support of many Western countries, jointly carry out joint patrols and information sharing between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to ensure the safety of ship navigation. At the same time, the United States has not stopped its military attacks on the Houthis. According to reports, the United States sent Carl Vinson-class aircraft carriers in the South China Sea to the Middle East, just in case.
There is no doubt that the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and this move will further challenge Iran and the militants behind it, and jeopardize peace and stability in the Middle East. Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian immediately rejected the accusations made by the United States, saying that the Houthi attack was only in self-defense, had nothing to do with Iran, and that Iran did not interfere in any of the Houthi decision-making. However, a commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps strongly cautioned that Iran would not hesitate to close the Mediterranean, the Strait of Gibraltar and other waters in order to cut off relations between the United States and Israel, as long as the United States and Israel commit crimes in Gaza. The announcement has raised international concerns about the deterioration of the situation in the Middle East and the outbreak of a full-scale conflict.
Against this backdrop, the United States must consider its own strategic interests and risks: will the United States go to war with Iran and the radical groups it supports because of Israel? Will the United States really win the war in the Middle East? Can the United States really ignore threats from other regions, especially China? In order to test China's position, Brown, a senior US military officer and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held the first televised conversation with Liu Zhenli, chief of staff of China's ** Military Commission, which was the first televised conversation between China and the United States since Pelosi's visit to China last year. The two countries are said to have engaged in a confrontation over controlling the military forces of China and the United States, while also touching on certain international and regional security issues, but they did not provide any details. However, according to the situation on the Chinese side, on the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea issue, we have already expressed a serious attitude towards the US side, reiterating that Taiwan affairs are China's internal affairs and no external interference is allowed, and that China's leading forces will firmly defend China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. The United States should abide by China's core interests, be cautious in its words and deeds, and take concrete actions to safeguard the peace and development of China-US relations.
Through the dialogue between the military leaders of China and the United States, we can see the dilemma that the United States faces in the Middle East, and the problem facing the United States is not only Iran and the military groups behind it, but also China's response. Can the United States cope with these two different strategies? Is it possible that the United States will get enough from the Middle East to compensate for the damage it has suffered elsewhere? Can the United States bring peace and stability to the Middle East, or drag it into an even greater predicament? Those are the issues that the United States needs to carefully consider, otherwise the United States will bring great trouble to the Middle East.