Reviewed Work: The Birds of the Malay Peninsula. A General Account of the Birds Inhabiting the Region from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore with the Adjacent Islands by Herbert C. Robinson Review by: W ...

Strategically, a canal across the Kra isthmus would alleviate the so-called “Malacca Dilemma” by which the U.S. could choke off this strait to Chinese traffic in a crisis or conflict.