Maritime air patrols the new weapon against piracy in the Malacca Straits

• Main Authors: Ho, Joshua, Ong, Graham Gerard
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82320; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39871
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

MALAYSIA’S Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Najib Tun Razak, first proposed the idea of conducting multinational maritime air-patrols over the Malacca Straits at the Shangri-La Dialogue in early June this year. His proposal was met with enthusiasm by both the littoral states as well as Th...