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China's nuanced foreign policy approach in the Red Sea contrasts with the US military actions in Yemen, revealing the drawbacks of simplistic action movie-inspired tactics.
Foreign policy analysts
Deeper insights into the potential consequences of oversimplified foreign policy decisions and the importance of strategic diplomacy over military interventions.
#ForeignPolicy #China #US #Yemen #MilitaryIntervention
Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bo again.
So today, we are going to talk about China and the Red Sea
and what their statement means and if it is an indication
that suddenly China and the United States
are gonna be on the same side
and looking at Yemen through the same light.
Okay, so if you missed the news,
the Chinese government basically said,
hey, going after shipping in the Red Sea, that should stop.
This has led a lot of people in the West
to think that this means China is going to join up
with the US-backed coalition to go after the Houthi.
No, no, definitely not.
Don't be silly.
That's not happening.
The Chinese model of foreign policy doesn't include that. That's not how they look at things.
The Houthi, which again, they are a group inside Yemen, they are not the officially recognized government.
China has a whole lot of influence and leverage there, because they could say,
hey, you want us to help you get recognized? Do you need a little support?
Because China is less likely to try to pretend that foreign policy has
something to do with morality. The other thing is that China might use its
expanding naval power to escort ships through the Red Sea that are direct
trading partners of China. That's how it's going to kind of flex its muscle
because realistically the Huthis they're not going to want to hit a Chinese ship
because the Chinese are more closely aligned with with the Houthi. So your
most likely, your most likely option here is that the Chinese are going to do
something very low footprint. They're going to engage in diplomacy, they're
going to send their Navy to escort ships if need be, and they're going to get all
all of the goodwill while the United States gets
all of the bad press because the United States
attempted to once again use
an airborne kinetic method
against a decentralized non-state actor.
Something that doesn't
actually work. At some point
the United States is going to have to acknowledge that taking
its foreign policy cues from
B-level action movies
is probably not a good idea. The
the operation that
the US and other countries have been involved in where they are striking
in Yemen at the Houthis. I mean tactically, yeah, they've been successes.
They're hitting the targets they're trying to hit. They are disrupting or
destroying the anti-ship missiles and everything's, you know, going along just
swimmingly there and it's changing absolutely nothing because that kind of
doesn't work on decentralized, on state actors. And everybody in the Pentagon who
had a hand in planning this, they knew that. But you had a bunch of politicians
and political pundits out there screaming, Biden's not doing anything. He
needs to strike back. Congratulations by encouraging that and making that a
political reality, something that the American people thought needed to happen,
you strengthened the hand of the Chinese government in the region. Foreign policy
is not... Foreign policy is not something that can be viewed through the lens of
stupid action movies. It's not actually how the world works. In fact, most times
those kind of stunts have the exact opposite effect and that's what happened
here. Anyway, it's just a thought. You'll have a good day.
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