Masafumi Kuroki, executive director of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) is unable to shed any light on China’s warning of possible attacks on Chinese-flagged shipping in the Malacca Strait at the beginning of July.
On 2 July China's Ministry of Transport (MOT) announced that under China's International Ship Security Regulations (ISSR) its security alert had been raised to Level 3.
