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Wen Zhanhai. According to CCTV News, the 46th batch of escort squadrons of the Chinese Navy is providing escort for merchant ships of China and other countries in the waters near the Gulf of Aden, and has played an important role in the safety of shipping lanes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. As a "normal" ocean-going mission of the Chinese Navy, escorting ships in the Gulf of Aden has long been accustomed to it, unlike in the past, when escorting ships at the beginning, they were always "paid special attention". However, it is such a routine escort mission, which has recently become a "thorn in the eye" of the West.
Data map: Chinese Navy escort formation).
As we all know, after the outbreak of the current round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the waters of the Red Sea are indeed not peaceful, and the biggest threat to Western merchant ships sailing in these waters has changed from Somali pirates to Houthi forces. The reason is naturally inseparable from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, because the United States and the West connived at Israel's brutal encirclement and suppression of the Gaza Strip, Yemen's Houthis put pressure on the West by attacking and seizing ships related to the United States and Israel. Although the United States sent ** to try to make the Houthis retreat, they did not expect that even the United States ** became the target of the Houthis.
The feud between the United States and the Houthis, China has no intention of intervening)
Faced with such a situation, some politicians in the United States have raised the idea of the Chinese Navy, and a few days ago, at a press conference of the US Department of DefenseThe U.S. side said it hopes China will play a role in fighting the Houthis and "supporting freedom of navigation." To be able to make such an unashamed demand on China can only be said that the Americans' ideas are indeed "wild." First of all, the escort mission carried out by the Chinese Navy's escort group in the Gulf of Aden has effectively maintained peace and stability in the maritime area. Moreover, the Chinese Navy does not only escort Chinese ships, as long as the ships of other countries apply in advance, they can be escorted and protected by the Chinese Navy, and in the mouth of the Americans, the hard work of the Chinese Navy escort formation is directly ignored, and they also want to directly involve the Chinese Navy in the armed conflict in the Middle East. This kind of self-talk is imbued with the innate self-righteousness and arrogance of the Angsa people.
The US Navy probably did not expect itself to be hit by the Houthis on the Red Sea)
First, the United States and Western countries are important sources of insecurity in the Red Sea. The United States did not stand up for justice when Israel violated United Nations resolutions and illegally occupied the Palestinian territories in the Gaza Strip and drove out the Palestinians, and when Israel massively ** Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, the United States did not stand up and shout for world peace. When the Israeli army destroyed schools, hospitals and other infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, the United States did not stand up and denounce the atrocities. On the contrary, when the Houthis in Yemen began to intercept and seize ships related to the United States and Israel, they jumped out to defend "freedom of navigation", and brazenly hoped that China would take sides against the Houthis. It's just a pity that the conflict in the Red Sea is not a war for China, it was not provoked by China at the beginning, China did not join the battle on the way, and now China is not obliged to bear the consequences. China's escort squadron is carrying out the escort mission of maintaining peace, and it has no obligation to clean up the mess for the United States.
With the connivance and even encouragement of the United States, Israel has caused a serious humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza)
Moreover, the United States has been frantically suppressing China for some time recently, and not long ago, the spokesperson of the United States also interfered in and accused us on the Hong Kong issue, pointing fingers at China's internal affairs, not to mention the previous crazy suppression of China's technology and automobile companies, and I don't know how the Pentagon shy asked China to cooperate with the United States on the issue of the Houthis.