China’s control the South China Sea, through which passes half the world’s commercial shipping, would give it an ability to close the two maritime chokepoints into East and Southeast Asia—________________ in the north and the even narrower _______________ to the south.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


the Taiwan Straits; Strait of Malacca

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