
Mike D - Tech Exec
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Mike D - Tech Exec
@MikeTrazer
Advisor and leader in AI, Technology & Entrepreneurship | Growth | Strategic Innovation | Health, Wellness, Software


🇲🇾🇨🇳 Hormuz gets all the attention, but the Strait of Malacca is the one that keeps Beijing up at night. It's the world's busiest maritime chokepoint, narrowing to just 1.7 miles at its tightest point. In the first half of 2025 alone, 23.2 million barrels of oil per day passed through it. That's more than Hormuz. Around 75% of China's seaborne crude imports flow through it from the Middle East and Africa. The Iran war has forced governments across Asia to think seriously about what happens if Malacca faces the same fate as Hormuz. Indonesia's finance minister floated the idea of tolls this week before walking it back. Singapore has already assured both the U.S. and China that passage is guaranteed and it won't participate in any effort to block it. The difference between Hormuz and Malacca is that 4 countries share the strait and all of them have a strategic interest in keeping it open. That makes it harder to close, but also harder to control. China is watching what the U.S. did to Iran's economy through a single chokepoint. It has one of its own that it can't protect alone. Source: Reuters

























🚨🇵🇰🇮🇷 Nine protesters killed in Karachi clashing with police while marching toward the U.S. consulate over Khamenei's death. Khamenei's assassination just triggered riots across the Muslim world. This is Pakistan. Imagine what's happening in Iran.









