Over coming months, we are likely to hear a lot more about the “freedom of the seas”, because Iran and America’s blockade of the Straits of Hormuz has made this the burning issue of our time. What is happening there now could just as easily happen in the Straits of Melaka, the key maritime artery linking the Bay of Bengal to the South China Sea, and it has already been happening on a smaller scale in the Bab el-Mandeb, at the entrance to the Red Sea, thanks to the efforts of the Houthis. Overnight, it seems, we are moving from…
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