After Hormuz, the US eyes the Strait of Malacca. Is China the real target of the US' latest geopolitical moves?

Disruptions to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz have raised concerns about vulnerabilities in another critical maritime corridor half a world away. The Strait of Malacca — a narrow stretch of water ...

China is very aware of the strategic importance of the Strait of Malacca. In 2003, then Chinese president Hu Jintao used the ...

FILE PHOTO: A container ship enters the Singapore Strait for the Strait of Malacca, as tourists stand at mainland Asia's southern most point in Johor, Malaysia November 12, 2016. Picture taken ...

South-east Asia is becoming more explicitly tied into great-power competition, and the Strait of Malacca is at the centre of it.

As the United States steps up pressure around the Strait of Hormuz, a critical energy corridor where Iranian-linked maritime activity is under scrutiny, attention is also turning eastward. A new ...

In the first few days after war broke out in the Middle East, the number of oil tankers passing through the Strait of Malacca, north of Australia, carried on as normal.

Disruption of the Strait of Hormuz has exposed a potential structural risk for global energy markets - an overreliance on five maritime passages that carry an average 60 million barrels of crude oil ...

Joshua Kurlantzick is senior fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. Iran has suffered ...

As global trade flows through the Strait of Malacca, Indonesia is questioning how long littoral states can bear the costs of ...