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China is playing a direct or an indirect role in enhancing the capabilities of the Houthis (Ansar Allah) in Yemen, the New Arab reported on June 8.
Western officials told the outlet’s Arabic version, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, that the Houthis have increasingly deployed advanced weaponry and systems of Chinese origin, marking a departure from their previous reliance on Russian and Iranian equipment.
The Houthis took over a trove of Soviet and Russian military equipment from the arsenal of the Yemeni army after rebelling in 2014. In later years, the group began to receive Iranian-made equipment from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
According to the New Arab, the recent confrontations with the United States in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Arabian Sea highlighted the group’s improved targeting of Western-made vessels and drones. Mapping and radar technologies linked to Chinese sources were allegedly used.
Last April, the U.S. The State Department accused Chinese satellite firm Chang Guang of providing satellite imagery to the Houthis.
“Chang Guang directly supports Iran-backed Houthi terrorist attacks on U.S. interests,” said State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce at the time. “The company’s support has continued despite repeated appeals to Beijing to halt covert support to the Houthis.”
These accusations were however rejected by China. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said in response that he had “no knowledge” of such cooperation and denied that Beijing was undermining regional stability.
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed said, citing Yemeni military sources, that government and coalition forces had on several occasions intercepted weapons and components used by the Houthis, with origins traced to Iran and East Asia, including China. Recovered Houthi drones in particular have shown a growing presence of Chinese-made parts.
In March, Conflict Armament Research reported that hydrogen fuel cell components – some made in China – were being smuggled to the Houthis for use in long-range drones.
Chinese-made components are regularly found in Iranian-made systems, thus it is hard to determine if there was any intentional direct or indirect support.
The Houthis have been granting safe passage to all Chinese ships passing through the Bab al-Mandab, all while imposing a strict blockade on Israel-linked shipping and targeting vessels belonging to the U.S., the United Kingdom, France and others.
China stepped up its efforts to strengthen its influence in the Middle East in recent years. The reconciliation brokered by Beijing between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which contributed to the ceasefire between the warring parties in Yemen, was an example of this. Still, it is unclear if China is indeed willing to go as far as military backing groups like the Houthis.
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i hope they are but they could do more by forcing an end to the genocidal blockade of gaza, send a naval task force and call the israeli bluff.
if they are giving huthis weapons they are allready contributing more to gaza then anyone else on the planet. confronting the most important country on the planet that almost every other nation on the planet would hurry to defend would not be smart at this stage.
hootys ghey bois will probl. wipe their goats ghey azzes with the guns and shoot them in the nuts.
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ups. too late. they already did…
tz tz
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like idf is forcing the bbc in the gheyza cunnt? yeah, you and your goat (both very verry ghey!) are prob. right.
you ghey pos.
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good to see the chinese do something, they really need to step up and engage with the (((west))). the more of a threat they pose the more they have to negotiate with. so far everything is too one sided.
they are busy bending over to usa.
lolz
and they have small dycks.
but just nuff for your ghey goats bhuttcrakk
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the chinese will make their move when the time is right.
so what’s the problem. the us gives weapons to the secessionist taiwanese.
well its just that its been decades since anyone has substantially supported and enemy of the usa.
carter signed the one china policy . taiwan is china , china is taiwan . this island was used to invade china for centuries . it has strategic value in all war scenarios .
you got a probl. with that ghey boi?
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what some hypocrisy…while more than 39 countries are militariily supporting ukraine vs russia with the us as # 1 sponsor.
its russias and chinas fault to allow the usa to pretend that their interventions are somewhat legal.
china makes a move on the global chess board, and puts the west in check.
i don’t buy it. china won’t even veto, the u.s. sponsored, u.n. resolution to keep the arms embargo on yemen.
how do you think the houthis are hitting ships?
f-35 engine parts and many other usa weapons rely on chinese parts. however china might consider israel devoid of normal human life and use it for a test range.
its too bad russia is chickenshit when it comes to handling th zionist entity, they handle it with kids gloves all the time. ussa and russia have too many stinky zionists at the top. china is the last big zionist-free superpower, not being eaten on the inside by these schizoid termites
your moddas kunnt does the flappidy flap again, ghey boi?
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then this should be as easy as taking taiwan will be!
you all seem pretty dense on sarcasm when its that blunt…
not without dycks
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wonderful news indeed. now keep flushing that filthy ussan dollah and let the anglozionazi basturds starve.
you seem to like goats nuts.
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when’s your circumcision coming up little one ? don’t let any rabbis pull your trousers down when mummy’s not watching..
if thats true thats the first sign of a real power using the method of the west against it. we will see. trying to prevent iranian influence in the red sea to end up with chinese influence there would be an interesting result of the saudi and western attacks on yemen.
hootys are ghey
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death to usa’s regime and death to israel!
death to your goat
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you ate too many goats nuts from a ghey filistain from gheyza
china plays the long game . and has real morality . to take 1 billion people out of poverty in 10 years is amazing . i hope this support only increases . how powerful will the brics system be in 10 years ? corruption destroys nations by itself . the current international mafia banker cult thrives on it . it does not serve understand the values of honesty or benevolence ,
china plays your moddas kunnt like a old chinamans fiddle. sounds ghey
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i wish the houthi the best in keeping the greater israel project at bay . if china is doing this , let it increase ! free palestine
you related to any of their ghey goats on your mothers side?
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china needs to support all resistance movements against the us genocidal criminals and their child killer zionist masters.
you should go back to things you know about.
like likking your ghey goats bhuttcrack and nuttsakk
loz
and you can go back to what you know about, thieving, swindling, kiddie fiddling.
the u.s. is just plain funny. dumb-ass trump’s admin crying always about everyone and everything, while they do the most outrageous and criminal acts. now crying about chinese parts in a yemeni missile. wonder how many chinese parts in us military weapons, chips and such? whine, the chinese know what they’re doing, yeah, like trump in israel and ukr doesn’t know about what he’s doing? right. what a whiney, crying, lying pos.
that would be great if china was helping the houthis. i’m sure they’re enjoying watching the houthis make a fool out of uncle sam.😬