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A location on the Kra Isthmus, site of the proposed Thai Canal / Wikimedia Commons
By Yan Naing 8 March 2022
The Thai Canal (previously known as the Kra Canal) refers to a proposed 135-km canal across southern Thailand that would connect the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea.
China has long envisaged constructing a canal across the Kra Isthmus housing Chinese port facilities and refineries, as part of its energy security strategy to build a “string of pearls” comprising a series of forward bases. Beijing hopes to save around 80 percent of…