I was on a liquor-drenched party boat that was sailing in the Strait of Malacca, one of the busiest and most important shipping lanes in the world today, when I saw its namesake in the distance.

Trade flourished during the Malacca Sultanate with deepening diplomacy, cultural and economic relations between the region and China. Malacca played host to the fleet of Admiral Zheng He for five ...

[Photo/China Daily] KUALA LUMPUR — Wang Lin, a tourist from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, marveled at the artifacts in the Cheng Ho Cultural Museum in Malacca, Malaysia, where the stories of ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

India has enjoyed one area of strategic advantage over China for many years: Chinese industry relies on shipping routes that move goods and oil through the Malacca Strait between Malaysia and ...

The traditional friendship dates back centuries ago, when the great Chinese navigator Zheng He arrived in Malacca Sultanate on the Malay Peninsula during China's Ming Dynasty, extending the hands ...

China’s string of pearls and China’s debt-trap diplomacy are the most gripping terms in sino ... Hambantota in Sri Lanka, Kyaupkyu in Myanmar, Malacca in Malaysia, Mombasa in Kenya, and port Sudan to ...

This issue isn't a recent one, though. Roughly two decades ago, the then-Chinese leader Hu Jintao termed it the "Malacca Dilemma." Since then, China has been unable to find a practical solution ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will hold joint military drills next month with Malaysia in the strategic Strait of Malacca, and will also hold training exercises with Australia and the United States in ...

At the height of its power and influence in the 15th century, the territories of the Malacca sultanate covered the ... interactions between Malacca and China revolved around the eunuch admiral ...