The Strait of Hormuz isn’t China’s only chokepoint. The Strait of Malacca may be more strategically vital — and on June 12, Beijing arrested an American scholar to protect its access to it. Min Zin, a scholar of China-Myanmar relations and US citizen, was wrongfully detained in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province and the The post China’s Malacca panic jails US scholar to appease Myanmar appeared first on Asia Times.



