President Biden's diplomacy with China is "strategic insanity" that may only help the autocratic Communist state accumulate power and global influence, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen told ...

Since the inception of transoceanic trade, the Strait of Malacca has been one of the most crucially important waterways in the world. The narrow passage between the island of Sumatra and the Malay ...

Seeing Malacca in Malaysia today, it is hard to imagine the extent of its territory hundreds of years ago. The influence of its European colonists is well known, that of imperial China much less so.

Beijing is quite conscious that the Strait of Malacca can act as an effective chokepoint in China’s economic network, and is trying to find a solution to this thorny geopolitical problem.

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton transit the Strait of Malacca on February 5, 2021. China's dependence on the strait for imported oil leaves the country ...

Wang Lin, a tourist from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, marveled at the artefacts in the Cheng Ho Cultural Museum in Malacca, Malaysia, where the stories of China’s legendary navigator and ...

In one part of the Southeast Asian epic Sejarah Melayu, the 15th century Malacca Sultanate receives a lavish gift from the distant emperor of China, then ruled by the Ming Dynasty.

China will hold joint military drills next month with Malaysia in the strategic Strait of Malacca, ... the United States strike on Iran and called for de-escalation and a return to diplomacy.

Malacca in present-day Malaysia was once a sultanate ruling over an extensive territory. As such it had regular exchanges with China’s Ming dynasty court; With Portuguese invading, China, as Malacca’s ...

A drawing of ancient Malacca from a Travel Book by Giulio Ferrario. Once a powerful sultanate that cultivated ties with Ming dynasty China, it fell to Portuguese invaders in 1511.