![]() ![]() It conveys more than one-third of global maritime traffic, with the Strait of Malacca carrying three times as much oil as the Suez Canal and 15 times more than the Panama Canal. Kaplan notes that the South China Sea is "becoming the most contested body of water in the world." Roughly bounded by Indonesia to the south, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam to the west, the Philippines and Taiwan to the east, and China to the north, the sea links the Indian Ocean with the Western Pacific. In "Asia's Cauldron," prolific traveler and strategist Robert D. Next, thanks to China's increasing assertiveness, could be Southeast Asia-especially the South China Sea. ![]() This month's lesson, thanks to Vladimir Putin, is Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula. War, as the dark quip goes, is God's way of teaching us geography. ![]()
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