From Strategic Culture
By Igor Ignatchenko
''85% of oil and its products are supplied to China from the Persian Gulf
and Africa across the Indian Ocean, including the narrow Malacca Strait
controlled by the armed forces of USA and its regional allies. The area
is subject to pirate attacks. In June 2011 Washington initiated the
Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training (Seacat) joint field training
exercise involving the navies of the US, the Philippines, Singapore,
Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Brunei in the Malacca Strait. Beijing
couldn’t but see it as a threat to the sea lanes that are used for
supplies of hydrocarbons and other materials to the country. ''
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