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And naturally the MSM failed to take note.
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Let’s drop one more puzzle piece onto the board, and this one could be biggest one of all. It could tie the whole picture together. Yesterday, Al Jazeera reported, “Indonesia, US sign ‘major’ defence cooperation agreement.” It was especially weird timing, considering that Indonesia controls another oil-shipping passage critical to China: the Strait of Malacca.
Corporate media was largely silent about the deal, even though it cannot possibly be coincidental that the U.S. is now making moves around the world’s second critical oil chokepoint in the same 30-day period. Trump’s team is walking, chewing gum, and taking names.
Indonesia is the world’s fourth-largest country by population, and its largest majority-Muslim country. For the last twenty years, analysts and officials have repeatedly highlighted the Strait of Malacca as a critical vulnerability for China, even coining the label “China’s Malacca dilemma.” It’s so well known that there’s a whole Wikipedia entry about it.
The dilemma is “a strategic vulnerability for China” because the strait handles a quarter of global trade and funnels roughly 80% of China’s crude oil imports through a long, skinny channel you could almost see across. It gives “deep throat” a whole new meaning.
China needs oil to survive. Unlike the US, the PRC imports over half of its annual oil demand. Wikipedia confirmed, “the Strait of Malacca is one of the most strategically important maritime chokepoints globally.” Even more so than the much-ballyhooed Strait of Hormuz. After blocking Hormuz, America is now stretching its hands toward Malacca’s neck. So you’d think this contemporaneous development would make bigger news.
It’s not merely a minor second-world development. Yesterday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth personally hosted Indonesia’s defense minister at the Pentagon, and even tweeted about it.
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Corporate media was largely silent about the deal, even though it cannot possibly be coincidental that the U.S. is now making moves around the world’s second critical oil chokepoint in the same 30-day period. Trump’s team is walking, chewing gum, and taking names.
Indonesia is the world’s fourth-largest country by population, and its largest majority-Muslim country. For the last twenty years, analysts and officials have repeatedly highlighted the Strait of Malacca as a critical vulnerability for China, even coining the label “China’s Malacca dilemma.” It’s so well known that there’s a whole Wikipedia entry about it.
The dilemma is “a strategic vulnerability for China” because the strait handles a quarter of global trade and funnels roughly 80% of China’s crude oil imports through a long, skinny channel you could almost see across. It gives “deep throat” a whole new meaning.
China needs oil to survive. Unlike the US, the PRC imports over half of its annual oil demand. Wikipedia confirmed, “the Strait of Malacca is one of the most strategically important maritime chokepoints globally.” Even more so than the much-ballyhooed Strait of Hormuz. After blocking Hormuz, America is now stretching its hands toward Malacca’s neck. So you’d think this contemporaneous development would make bigger news.
It’s not merely a minor second-world development. Yesterday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth personally hosted Indonesia’s defense minister at the Pentagon, and even tweeted about it.
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Trump Just Dropped the Biggest Puzzle Piece Yet ... America Now Has China’s Oil By the Throat - Flopping Aces
Let’s drop one more puzzle piece onto the board, and this one could be biggest one of all. It could tie the whole picture together. Yesterday, Al Jazeera
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