The Indian Ocean serves as a route between Europe and Asia via waterways like the Suez Canal and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to the west and the Strait of Malacca to the east. To the northwest is the ...

China has been moving to reduce the potential impact of blockades by turning its navy into a blue water force and ...

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was tracked leaving the western Pacific Ocean as it transited toward the Indian Ocean, ...

a substantial amount of its crude oil and natural gas supplies still need to travel from Africa and the Middle East through the Indian Ocean, including the chokepoint of the Malacca Strait ...

Additionally India’s ability to threaten goods going via Gwadar, could be complicated by the increasing Chinese naval presence in the Indian Ocean. In fact the same goes for the Malacca Strait.

Maps often reveal more about those ... down through the narrow Strait of Malacca off Indonesia, across the Indian Ocean to the Persian Gulf. In a world governed solely by the laws of supply ...

Delhi has long aspired to control the narrow maritime chokepoints used by ships travelling to and from the Indian Ocean, including the Malacca Strait, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Mozambique Channel.