From Deutsche Welle - Global shipping on edge after Houthis attack vessels.
A major escalation in maritime attacks in the Middle East unfolded this weekend when ballistic missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels struck three commercial ships Sunday in the Red Sea.
A week earlier, the Iran-backed Houthis seized a Japanese-operated cargo ship in the Red Sea, with armed men jumping onto its deck from a helicopter before hoisting Palestinian and Yemeni flags.
It doesn't look like the last world war, doesn't mean that is not what it is.
A ground war in Europe? Check. China doing credible sabre-rattling? Check. The middle east exploding? Check.
To avoid the Red Sea, shipping from India and China would need to transit The Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and approach Europe and the Mediterranean Sea by way of the Straits of Gibraltar, instead of using the Suez canal.
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