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other Southeast Asian nations are well-positioned to cut off Chinese supply lines in the event of a major military confrontation by creating a
other Southeast Asian nations are well-positioned to cut off Chinese supply lines in the event of a major military confrontation by creating a
blockade around the Strait of Malacca. China wants to ensure that its commercial and naval vessels find an alternate route that altogether avoids the Malacca choke point while travelling between the Indian and [[Pacific Ocean]]s. This is an overhang of the maritime portion of Xi Jinping's Belt and Road initiative that seeks to connect Southeast Asia with the [[Middle East]] and [[Europe]].
blockade around the Strait of Malacca. China wants to ensure that its commercial and naval vessels find an alternate route that altogether avoids the Malacca choke point while travelling between the Indian and [[Pacific Ocean]]s. This is an overhang of the maritime portion of Xi Jinping's Belt and Road initiative that seeks to connect Southeast Asia with the [[Middle East]] and [[Europe]].
==Republic of Maldives==
The Maldivian project is a case in point, in which China is developing the iHavan Integrated Development Project in the northernmost main sea line of communication joining Southeast Asia and China to West Asia and Europe.<ref>https://youtu.be/gE1iI5cWsPw</ref> The iHavan project is riding on huge concessional loans/aid financing from China and it is being forecast that [[Maldives]] shall almost certainly default on payments, thereby allowing China to seize a few berthing facilities there.
This pattern could well be adopted in the future with many other countries, especially since official Chinese publications including Xinhua have advocated and "advised" the [[PLA Navy]] to build as many as 18 overseas naval military bases in the greater Indian Ocean area, possibly including: Chongjin port (North Korea), Moresby port ([[Papua New Guinea]]), Sihanoukville port ([[Cambodia]]), Koh Lanta port (Thailand), Sittwe port ([[Myanmar]]), Dhaka port ([[Bangladesh]]), Gwadar port ([[Pakistan]]), Hambantota port (Sri Lanka), Maldives, [[Seychelles]], Djibouti port ([[Djibouti]]), Lagos port ([[Nigeria]]), Mombasa port ([[Kenya]]), Dar-es-Salaam port ([[Tanzania]]), Luanda port ([[Angola]]) and the Walvis Bay port ([[Namibia]]).<ref>
==See also==
==See also==