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Since well before the Middle Ages, the narrow passage between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula has been essential to international trade. In 1407 Chen Zuyi was its unrivaled scourge. Operating out of Palembang, a city on Sumatra with a large Chinese population, his heavily armed junks intercepted almost every convoy that...

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