Chokepoint

That strategy, according to Zawacki, seeks ways to avoid the chokepoint of the Straits of Malacca through which much of China’s energy supplies and raw materials must pass. Currently that chokepoint is controlled by the US Seventh Fleet.

An intentional or inadvertent incident at sea could quickly escalate into a direct military confrontation, and risk shipping through the critical energy chokepoint.

In the paper, the company’s lawyers, David Thompson, John Ohlendorf, Harold Reeves, and Joseph Masterman, first explain the background of Operation Chokepoint under the Obama admin.

From mid-November 2023 onwards, the Houthis have used their substantial arsenal of missiles and drones to target shipping passing close to the narrow, strategic chokepoint of the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait.

This could signal the arrival of ChokePoint 3.0, as its extensive reporting requirements will expand government oversight into people’s crypto activity and holdings globally.

This positions Indonesia as a potentially important chokepoint in the global supply chain for raw materials and semiconductor assembly, testing and packaging (ATP).

As the middle man between your computer and the internet at large, the modem is the biggest potential chokepoint in your network.

But the FDA’s initial emergency use authorization didn’t have to make the CDC a chokepoint for testing, Sharfstein said.

The Strait of Hormuz is between Oman and Iran, which the US Energy Information Administration described as “the world’s most important oil transit chokepoint”.

Consider that about 3,900 Japan-related vessels pass through the Strait of Hormuz each year, while 1,800 or so such ships move through the Bab el-Mandeb strait, another oil chokepoint.

The US Navy already has sent Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers to chokepoint positions, like either end of the Strait of Hormuz.

War broke out during this week’s episode, ‘Chokepoint’ where Alpha and Beta went searching for what they believed belonged to them.