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Southeast Asia is home to the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, one of the world’s most important sea lines of communication. The closure of the straits to international navigation may adversely affect the well-being of the global economy. On February 11, 2022, the Biden administration announced the new Indo-Pacific strategy, which will continue to deliver on AUKUS. For centuries, the proposed Thai Canal Project has been planned to revolutionize the shipping industry by bypassing the busy waters of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. If the canal is built under the US Indo-Pacific Strategy...

Australia’s future nuclear-powered submarine fleet could sail the high seas of the Indian and Pacific oceans and the straits of Southeast Asia unimpeded.

Professor Donald R. Rothwell teaches International Security Law at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University.

This is the first installment in a series of primers produced in partnership with The Diplomat. “Words have meanings.” It’s easy to dismiss this statement as a truism. But words – and their meanings – do hold particular import in the multi-layered realm of maritime territorial disputes, where the distinction between a rock and an island can mean the difference between hundreds of square miles of Exclusive Economic Zone. At times, usage of words has itself opened new fronts in conflicts as nationalist fights over place names in textbooks have shown. Those wishing to understand and ac...

Radio conversation, we can hear someone identify themselves as the iranian navy control vessel. they held that a british ship. it is now under their control and warned do not interfere in my operation. they insisted that they are in international waters, the does not detour the iranians. listen here. >> we are in a facility of internationally recognized, conducting transit passage. >> the oil tanker and its crew members remain in iranian custody. they have been there for a little bit more than a week now. some say that they seized of the british tanker in retaliation for the british navy's rol...