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...The Behshad, a mysterious Iranian ship in the Gulf of Aden, is raising concern among maritime experts that it is helping Houthi rebels target commercial sea traffic....
...Monetary policy: Federal Reserve board governor Christopher Wallace is set to give a speech on the economic outlook at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution....
...Situated on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a chokepoint separating the Gulf of Aden from the Red Sea, it now hosts the military bases (for a price) of the US, China, Japan, France and Italy....
...But Christopher Yung, senior research fellow at National Defense University in Washington, said in a recent paper “the nature and degree of China’s access to out-of-area bases will be the ultimate indication...
...The PLA Navy has shown it is serious by sending anti-piracy forces to the Gulf of Aden since late 2008....
...A hospital ship that had been deployed to the Gulf of Aden as part of a multinational anti-piracy mission made several port visits in the region....
...Christopher Thompson is a freelance journalist...
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