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It has access to the Straits of Malacca, to the Indian Ocean, to the South China Sea, which makes it a pivotal shipping hub.
It has access to the Straits of Malacca, to the Indian Ocean, to the South China Sea, which makes it a pivotal shipping hub.
Additionally, being able to ship or sail through the Northern Sea route would provide China with alternative trade routes that would allow it to bypass choke points like the Strait of Malacca or the Bab El Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea that Beijing is quite concerned about.
Additionally, being able to ship or sail through the Northern Sea Route would provide China with alternative trade routes that would allow it to bypass choke points like the Strait of Malacca or the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea that Beijing is quite concerned about.
But I do think that it's important to understand that what is at stake here is not just what has happened in this war, but the precedent that this sets for other choke points, other maritime choke points, from the Bab al-Mandab to the Strait of Malacca to the Taiwan Straits.
the precedent that this sets for other choke points, other maritime choke points, from the Bab al-Mandab to the Strait of Malacca to the Taiwan Straits.
The Dutch and British East India Companies alike controlled and taxed choke points like Malacca throughout the Malay Archipelago for centuries as well, while pirates all over the world from the Barbary Coast to the Caribbean forced tributes or tolls in exchange for safe passage through straits like Gibraltar and the straits out of the Gulf of Mexico for centuries as well.
The Dutch and British East India Companies alike controlled and taxed choke points like Malacca throughout the Malay Archipelago for centuries as well, while pirates all over the world from the Barbary Coast to the Caribbean forced tributes or tolls in exchange for safe passage through straits like Gibraltar and the straits out of the Gulf of Mexico for centuries as well.
Historically, most of the shipments from China go through the Straits of Malacca,
If you look at China, for example, they are paranoid that most of their oil has to flow through the Straits of Malacca between Indonesia and Malaysia right off of Singapore.
We are in Malacca right now and it is nighttime so we are about to head over to Jonker Street
So we are in Malacca right now and it is nighttime so we are about to head over to Jonker Street where they have one of the biggest night markets I have ever seen.
I mean, China currently imports 80% of its oil through the Straits of Malacca and Southeast Asia,
We cannot allow the Iranians to control the Strait of Hormuz, much like we can't, uh, allow others to control the Strait of Malacca or the South China Sea or the Suez Canal.
pick a place like the Strait of Malacca by Singapore and Indonesia.
crossed with a boat via the Malacca Strait, one of the key choke points in the new discovered, we can always say, geoeconomic choke points.