About 90 per cent of China’s trade is by sea, including 80 per cent of energy and 60 per cent of gas, and almost 60 per cent ...

China's Malacca dilemma is the stuff of legend. At a Chinese Communist Party meeting in 2003, the then President Hu Jintao mentioned the lack of alternative routes and vulnerability of the Malacca ...

Though Beijing has taken several steps to alleviate its ‘Malacca Dilemma,’ China remains vulnerable as ever to a naval blockade in a hypothetical conflict with the US Navy, at least in the short-term.

Strategically, a canal across the Kra isthmus would alleviate the so-called “Malacca Dilemma” by which the U.S. could choke off this strait to Chinese traffic in a crisis or conflict.