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From Hormuz to Malacca, Delhi must draw the right lessons
July 09, 2026 4:41 pm
As interstate competition grows, the ability to threaten these critical routes for energy, trade, and commerce undermines economic stability and highlights why a rules-based international order must be urgently restored
Great power games have a new variable: Chokepoints
April 28, 2026 4:49 pm
The transit passage concept of the UNCLOS was intended to ensure that narrow waterways such as Hormuz are not subject to unilateral control; the right it establishes is non-suspendable and legally binding. Yet, as so often happens in moments of acute crisis, the law has yielded to force
Beyond Hormuz: Why Strait of Malacca is the real global trade chokepoint
April 24, 2026 5:21 am
The Malacca Strait, bound by Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, connects the Indian Ocean with the Pacific and provides the shortest route between East Asia, West Asia and Europe.
Closely watching Iran’s ‘chokepoint’ strategy around Strait of Hormuz: India and China
March 20, 2026 12:27 pm
The Malacca Strait can be a strategic sweet spot for India, especially with China’s fabled String of Pearls ports, BRI, and arterial projects like the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, undergoing various operational challenges
Vietnam scales down search for missing Malaysian jet
March 12, 2014 11:56 am
Vietnam had asked Malaysian authorities for information related to the plane direction after its last contact.
US firm claims vessel was not in Indian waters
October 24, 2013 1:00 am
Counsel for AdvanFort submitted before the Judicial Magistrate Court I that the vessel was off the Indian territorial waters.
Crew of US ship arrested for carrying arms illegally into Indian waters
March 14, 2014 11:24 am
33 members of vessel 'Seaman Guard Ohio' were taken to Muthiapuram Police Station for questioning.
Detained US ship will escape sanction if it was beyond Indian maritime border: NSA
March 14, 2014 11:28 am
Territorial waters of any country extend upto 12 nautical miles,according to intl law.
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