China and Russia Learn Not Even Their Ships Are Safe in the Red Sea

China and Russia, which might’ve thought their merchant fleets were safe sailing through the Red Sea, got a reminder over the weekend that there are no such guarantees in the fog of economic warfare.

After Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that the Yemen-based group backed by Iran told Beijing and Moscow their ships wouldn’t be targeted with missile and drone attacks, the Houthis fired a missile at a Chinese-owned oil tanker called M/V Huang Pu on Saturday, causing a minor fire and no injuries, according to the US.