The Chinese Naval War to disrupt world supply chains
The Battle for the North Atlantic took several years to conquer the Nazi U-Boat Menace. China is just using proxies at this phase.
The Houthis, Somalis, Hamas, and Hezbollah work for Iran. Iran works for China. China has given the green light to block the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the 16 mile wide chokepoint between Yemen and Djibouti. Take off three miles on each side for safe navigation away from shoals, rocks, and other matters, and this is more narrow than the English Channel at Dover. If you have enough drones, missiles, and ballistic missiles, you just lob them into this narrow passage and International Shipping Registries will invoke wartime insurance rates.
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