Will Malacca Strait become the next maritime flashpoint?

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Developments in the Strait of Hormuz reverberated 6,500 km away when, in late April, Indonesian Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, noting that Iran was planning to charge ships passing through Hormuz, said: “We sit along a key global trade and energy route, yet ships passing through the Malacca Strait are not charged.” He mused that the income from tolls at Malacca could be split three ways between the…