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Why a second global shipping chokepoint could soon live up to its name as the ‘Gate of Tears’
Energy

Why a second global shipping chokepoint could soon live up to its name as the ‘Gate of Tears’

Flavio Macau
4 min read
All eyes are now on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a critical route for oil, gas and trade after Strait of Hormuz
This is an example of a ‘Manta’ naval mine.
Economy

How sea mines threaten global trade, and how navies detect them

John Femiani
5 min read
US intelligence reports Iranian deployment of naval mines in Strait of Hormuz
When a West Asia war affects a Tamil Nadu daily-wage household’s diet, it reflects choices about trade policy and agricultural infrastructure
Economy

When a West Asia war affects a Tamil Nadu daily-wage household’s diet, it reflects choices about trade policy and agricultural infrastructure

Sagari Gupta
5 min read
The policy responses to such crises do not address the question of why the system was built to be this exposed in the first place
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