Representatives of Yemen’s largely powerless legitimate government told Beijing on Tuesday at a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Beijing that the regime “expects China to play a greater role in promoting peace and stability in the Middle East.” ” he said.
In a meeting with Vice Foreign Minister Deng Li, Mansour Bagash, deputy minister of Yemen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreigners, called on the Chinese Communist Party to expand its influence in the region. Global Times report on wednesday.
Reportedly, Bagash Said:
Yemen is ready to continue deepening friendly and cooperative relations with China in various fields. The Yemeni side also appreciated China’s efforts in promoting the process of political resolution of the Yemen issue, thanked China for maintaining an objective and impartial position on the Palestinian-Israeli issue, and expressed its commitment to China in promoting peace and stability in the Middle East region. We hope that China will play a larger role. East region.
In response, Deng Xiaoping said Beijing still considers Yemen’s Presidential Council to be the country’s legitimate government, and not the Houthi terrorist group, which controls the capital Sanaa and the rest of the country and its resources. insisted. “The Chinese government intends to continue to strengthen political mutual trust with Yemen, strengthen exchanges and cooperation in various fields, and promote the further development of China-Yemeni relations,” the Chinese government said.
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It has been largely successful. China has increased its profile as a partner of the two most influential Middle East Muslim countries, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and became a key voice at the United Nations in support of the terrorist group Hamas after the October 7 attacks. Ta. , 2023, Atrocities against Israeli civilians. A month after the terrorist onslaught that killed 1,200 people, China hosted a summit of Middle East partner countries to discuss how to support Hamas and its “Palestinian cause” against Israel.
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The chaotic situation in Yemen, which has been in a state of civil war since 2014, began to threaten China’s economic interests after the October conflict, when the Houthis announced an operation to attack commercial ships in the Red Sea in solidarity with Hamas. The number of attacks is 7 times. Houthi leaders, backed by China’s ally Iran, have warned the governments of China and Russia that they will not attack ships flying the flags of those countries, only those with ties to Israel. I promised not to. In fact, they attack seemingly random ships, many of them carrying Chinese cargo, forcing shipping companies to turn away from the Red Sea and take a much longer route around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. There is.A report published by South China Morning Post In January, Chinese exporters suggested they were desperately seeking a “Plan B” to fend off a possible Houthi attack around the Suez Canal route.
A view of the oil tanker Merlin Luanda, which went up in flames after an attack in the Gulf of Aden, January 27, 2024 (Indian Navy via Associated Press)
of Global Timesassessed the talks with Yemeni government officials and said China “could play a role in maintaining political stability in Yemen,” but the Houthis have very deep ties with Iran, so there is no military option in either direction. He suggested he would not seek intervention. The Yemeni government’s biggest supporters on the international stage are Saudi officials, who spearheaded a Middle East coalition effort launched in 2015 to fight the Houthis in response to their 2014 invasion and conquest of Sanaa. Ta. The Chinese government indirectly influenced these hostilities through mediation. A peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia allows both countries to join the Chinese-led BRICS economic and political union. The BRICS coalition is named after the founding countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
An “expert” from the Chinese government said this. Global Times He said Tuesday’s talks signaled that Yemen was trying to draw China deeper into Middle East issues.
“From this meeting, it is clear that Yemen also wants China to play a more active and active role in the region,” said Sun Degang, director of Fudan University’s Center for Middle East Studies.
Another “expert”, Professor Liu Zhongmin of the Shanghai University of International Studies, suggested that Yemen’s legitimate government “appears to have directly expressed its awareness of China’s role in promoting rapprochement, especially between Saudi Arabia and Iran.”
In response to the Houthis’ obstruction of international trade, the Yemeni government has stepped up its calls for the world to support military efforts against Iranian-backed terrorists, without much success. Aidars al-Zubaidi, vice-chairman of the ruling Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, visited the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland in January and urged the world to come together to support Yemeni ground forces against the Houthis. I called out.
“Securing international navigation in the Red Sea requires an international and regional alliance,” Zubaidi told Agence France-Presse (AFP) at the event. “Ground forces must be supported on the ground, and these forces belong to the legitimate government. A strong attack without ground operations is useless, so these forces can achieve victory on the ground .”
The left-wing government of US President Joe Biden and its British allies have carried out a series of airstrikes against Houthi targets, but Mr Biden has publicly said he does not expect any changes to be made to protecting the Red Sea. Admitted.
A Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon aircraft takes off from Akrotiri Air Force, Cyprus, on January 11, 2024, to join the US-led coalition conducting airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. (MoD Crown copyright from his Getty Images)
“Are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes,” Biden said of the airstrikes in mid-January.
