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 .