According to the latest Reuters news, four Iranian sources and a diplomat familiar with the matter revealed that China has "pressured" Iran to help curb Houthi attacks on incoming ships in the Red Sea, and according to the sources, the two sides have met several times in Beijing and Tehran to discuss attacks and trade.
Reuters mentioned that an unnamed Iranian official said that the Chinese side basically meant that "if our interests are harmed by an attack, it will affect the trade between China and Iran, so we should inform the Houthis to exercise restraint", and the same source also said that the Chinese side made it clear that China would be disappointed with Iran if any China-related ships were attacked, or if China's interests were damaged.
Merchant ships passed through the Red Sea
Judging from the content of the report, China's demands on Iran are not excessive, and are entirely based on China's own interests, and any country will give priority to its own interests when facing similar problems, so China's approach is reasonable and legal.
However, when Reuters reported on it, it omitted the important core of "China's interests" and directed the content of the report to "China's pressure on Iran", which is obviously not the standard of a major international media, not to mention that China has always believed that the source of the situation in the Red Sea is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and these two issues cannot be viewed separately, so it is obviously problematic to hype up "China's pressure on Iran".
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Of course, for such a thing, the Chinese are no longer surprised, after all, moving flowers and trees and taking words out of context is the traditional art of the Western media to smear other countries, but the crux of the matter is what kind of purpose is behind the normal dialogue and exchange between China and Iran so guided by Reuters.
You must know that some Western media have begun to pull on the fallacy that "because Iran supports the Houthis, so China's purchase of Iranian oil is equivalent to aiding the Houthis", in an attempt to "tie" China and the Houthis together, but now they are hyping up "China pressuring Iran" and separating China from the Houthis, which is obviously not normal.
Blinken and Sullivan
On the one hand, the US media revealed that in the past three months, senior US officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, have repeatedly urged China to convey "warnings" to Iran and demand that the Houthis be curbed because China has a good relationship with Iran.
On the other hand, John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, also returned to the containment of Houthi attacks at a press conference, emphasizing that "China has important influence on Iran and can talk to Iranian leaders, but we can't", while another US official said that one of the topics of the upcoming meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Sullivan in Bangkok, Thailand, involves the actions of the Houthis in the Red Sea.
The United States is playing games with the Houthis
Therefore, it is easy to understand where the so-called "China's pressure on Iran" comes from, that is, the United States and other Western countries cannot talk to Iran, so they hope that China will pressure Iran to force it to curb the actions of the Houthis and restore peace in the Red Sea.
Similarly, before the meeting between Wang Yi and Sullivan, the news of "China pressuring Iran" was released, which to some extent hinted that China and the United States would reach some kind of agreement, which formed an invisible pressure on Iran, so that Sino-Iranian relations may be affected, and even forced Iran to "throw a mouse" and actively pressure the Houthis to curb their actions in the Red Sea.
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All in all, there must be a reason behind the unusualness of the United States and the West, they cannot be "Mr. Yes", nor can they be "Mr. Yes", so they will do everything possible to coerce other countries to help solve the problem, but the key to the problem is that the situation in the Red Sea and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict cannot be separated and resolved, otherwise it can only treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.
Of course, if the United States and the West have to look at it in two parts, then there is basically no room for solving this problem, unless the United States is ready for a full-scale invasion of Yemen and a war against the Houthis and Iran.