Hi Bob, you make a good point, I don't thinkk it is a blockade, I said western media are "reporting it as a blockade". Howver, if you take a loook at a map, the straits are effectively blocked due to several different locations and the Pacific Ocean, which could never be blockaded has exercises strategically and effectivly crossing regular shipping lines. It isn't a blockade, it's an effective method of slowing traffic through those regions and causing delays into ports though