{"id":88404,"date":"2020-09-12T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17396"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T12:28:14","slug":"big-blow-to-china-as-thailand-scraps-kra-canal-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/big-blow-to-china-as-thailand-scraps-kra-canal-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Big blow to China as Thailand scraps KRA canal project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Thailand has announced that it has decided to scrap a Chinese led-KRA canal project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-1IhCLj7QD0i1B1TC7T4iBO0ARtNwTYUHRhWdn6a8IMp-X58fI2XLZzNCuKDvXi6LsLo-PmVVhYaAyjFdEApoj2L3kQ0s9-zPltS6x7EVUeCUEb1RTQzd_NoC4zZVj8UTKIkOMaO\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Kra Canal <\/strong>also known as Thai Canal or Kra Isthmus Canal refers to a proposed canal project that aims to connect the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea across the Kra Isthmus in southern Thailand.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>The canal would provide an alternative to transit through the Straits of Malacca and shorten transit for shipments of oil to Japan and China by 1,200 km.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Strait of Malacca: <\/strong>It is a narrow, 890 km (550 mi) stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia) and the Indonesian island of Sumatra.<ul><li>It serves as the main shipping channel between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Thailand has announced that it has decided to scrap a Chinese led-KRA canal project. Facts: Kra Canal also known as Thai Canal or Kra Isthmus Canal refers to a proposed canal project that aims to connect the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea across the Kra Isthmus in southern Thailand.&nbsp; Significance: The canal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/big-blow-to-china-as-thailand-scraps-kra-canal-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big blow to China as Thailand scraps KRA canal project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[6106,4548],"class_list":["post-88404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-kra-canal-project","tag-thailand","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}