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Speaking at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs recently, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan remarked that the strategic location of Singapore, an island nation at the tip of the Asian continent, really got amplified when the building of the Suez Canal in 1869 made the Malacca Strait the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia.
Until then, the intercontinental shipping between Europe and East Asia had been through the Sunda Strait.
