The Middle East policy of the United States has been crumbling, and China has taken advantage of the

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John Kirby, coordinator of strategic communications at the White House Committee, said the United States continues to oppose a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip but supports a humanitarian ceasefire.

Kirby noted that the US position on relevant issues has not changed. He had previously confirmed that the United States does not support a ceasefire.

He stressed at a press conference: ".We continue to support a humanitarian ceasefire, but it is not a comprehensive one

As for what the United States said about supporting a humanitarian ceasefire, I can only describe it in two words: hehe!

Why should the United States oppose a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip?

There is a very strange phenomenon, in the context of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the United States has always been worried that it will be caught in the whirlpool of the Middle East and cannot extricate itself.

There's a reason for that, of courseThe root cause is that the United States has not reaped the benefits of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but has gone wrong in its Middle East policy

Why did the United States immediately send military forces into the Middle East as soon as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out?

This is because the Middle East is the second largest part of the U.S. global strategy, second only to Europe.

Why is there something wrong with the US Middle East policy?

In fact, the United States has long had problems in its Middle East policy, but this Palestinian-Israeli conflict has made these problems more visible.

These problems are mainly as follows:

First, against the backdrop of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the reconciliation process between Iran and Saudi Arabia has not stalled.

Second: the Houthis blockade of the Red Sea and the economic lifeblood of China, the United States and Israel.

Third, US military bases in the Middle East have been frequently attacked, and the anti-US wave in the Middle East is gathering momentum.

Fourth: Iraq has publicly proposed the end of the U.S. military presence.

Against the backdrop of the outbreak of this round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, although on the surface Israel has comprehensively suppressed Hamas and created a one-sided situation in Gaza, the fundamental problem still cannot be resolved.

The Houthi blockade of the Red Sea, for example, is a mortal threat to the United States and Israel, and as mentioned earlier, the Houthi blockade of the Red Sea has hit the lifeblood of both the United States and Israel.

One is because Israel is a country that is heavily dependent on imports, and the other is that if the Red Sea is blocked, it will block part of the capitalist economy, which is very bad for the United States and Israel.

And Israel is very worried that someone will follow suit.

Sometimes, the more you worry about something, the more it will come

On January 7, the Israeli business publication Le Globes said that China's state-owned shipping giant China Ocean Shipping Group Corporation (COSCO), one of the world's largest container shipping companiesIt has been decided to stop calling at Israeli ports

Truth be told, this is a very bad message for Israel for several reasons:

On the one hand, China COSCO is a state-owned enterprise, and when it comes to major political and security events such as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the decision to stop calling at Israeli ports basically represents the will of the above.

On the other hand, China's relations with various countries and forces in the Middle East are very good, and now even Chinese transport companies are going to stop calling at Israeli ports, which is not to reveal a message to the rest of the world, and then blockade the Red SeaThe Houthis will play for real。Take a look:

According to the German news agency dpap on January 10**, Yemen's Houthi rebels announced on the 10th that they used a large number of missiles and drones to attack a US ship supporting Israel.

Houthi spokeswoman Yahya Saryea reportedly said in a statement that the operation was an "initial response" to the US attack on Houthi vessels at the end of December.

China has made the decision to stop calling at Israeli ports, so will other countries follow suit? This is what worries Israel the most ...

At the same time, it is also the most worrying place for the United States, in the face of the Houthi blockade of the Red Sea, if the United States does not respond well, it may trigger a chain reaction, especially causing other countries to start thinking about whether the United States can still cope with this kind of challenge.

If the United States seriously responds to the Houthi military action to blockade the Red Sea, then the United States must directly attack the Houthis.

But what makes the United States painful is that this is completely different from the purpose of the United States trying to avoid being drawn into the vortex of conflict in the Middle East.

Without fighting the Houthis, the Red Sea will be blocked, which is very detrimental to the United States and Israel; If you fight the Houthis, you will definitely fall into the whirlpool of conflicts in the Middle East, triggering the situation in the Middle East to develop in an unstoppable direction, and Putin will definitely wake up in the middle of the night with a smile.

Send Biden a word, this is the wisdom of the Chinese: the lesser of two evils.