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Aug 7
26 m

Strait of Hormuz bottlenecks

CHINA PLUS
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More than five months into the US-Israel-Iran conflict, the Strait of Hormuz has repeatedly been closed, reopened and thrust back into uncertainty, becoming one of the conflict's most consequential flashpoints. What might that mean for global energy security and the future of geopolitical competition? 
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