{"id":100939,"date":"2026-07-29T11:47:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=100939"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:49:14","slug":"china-in-touch-with-yemens-houthis-to-allow-ships-to-sail-through-red-sea-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/china-in-touch-with-yemens-houthis-to-allow-ships-to-sail-through-red-sea-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"China in touch with Yemen\u2019s Houthis to allow ships to sail through Red Sea, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/DUBAI: \u200cChina has held direct talks with Yemen\u2019s Houthi movement to enable its tankers to sail through the southern Red Sea without being attacked after the Iran-aligned militia pledged to prevent access to Saudi ports, six sources with knowledge \u200bof the matter have said.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis declared their blockade on July 20, opening a new front against the US and its allies in the Iran war and expanding attacks on tankers carrying energy and other supplies to markets beyond the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has asked the Houthis directly to promise safe passage for its tankers, according to the sources, who included a senior Iranian official.<\/p>\n<p>China was among the first countries to contact the Houthis directly about transits through Bab el-Mandeb, the strait at the southern end of the Red Sea with Yemen on its eastern \u200cbank, said the sources, \u200cwho declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of \u200bthe \u200cmatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/DUBAI: \u200cChina has held direct talks with Yemen\u2019s Houthi movement to enable its tankers to sail through the southern Red Sea without being attacked after the Iran-aligned militia pledged to prevent access to Saudi ports, six sources with knowledge \u200bof the matter have said. The Houthis declared their blockade on July 20, opening a new &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":100951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100952,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100939\/revisions\/100952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}