The Malacca Dilemma – Prospects and Concerns for the Geopolitics of Asian Waters
More than 30 per cent of the world’s seaborne trade passes through the Malacca Strait with China, Japan, and South Korea reliant on this strategic waterway for their supplies, especially energy.Beijing is seeking alternative routes to reduce its dependence on the waterway to ensure a more viable long-term energy security policy.China’s Strategic influence in the Indo pacific region is bearing severe economic consequences and instability within the countries.India needs to recalibrate its strategy with regard to Malacca Strait and increase its naval presence in the region.Building proactive formal frameworks toward initiating greater institutional dialogue with the adversaries must be initiated at the earliest.
While China is actively seeking to diversify energy routes to reduce its...