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Can China broker peace in Yemen – and further Beijing's Middle East strategy in the process?

  • Written by Mahad Darar, Ph.D. Student of Political Science, Colorado State University
Can China broker peace in Yemen – and further Beijing's Middle East strategy in the process?A Houthi fighter patrols an area during Yemen's civil war.Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images

After nearly a decade of grinding conflict, Yemen looks to be inching toward a peace deal.

Talks between the Houthi movement controlling much of the country’s north and Saudi Arabia, the regional power backing an anti-Houthi coalition in the war, are ongoing...

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