STRAIT OF MALACCA

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An 800-kilometer corridor between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, narrowing to 2.8 kilometers at the Phillips Channel. Roughly 25% of global trade transits annually — including 80% of China's oil imports and 70% of its trade by volume. The single most strategically asymmetric chokepoint on the planet for the PRC.

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