Since the beginning of 2005, the security of Malacca Straits has been a worldwide focus not only because of frequent occurrences of five piracy and kidnap cases in several months, but also of the attitudes and stands of major powers and the littoral countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Though the littoral governments express their wills of coping with the serious piracy threats by themselves, Japan uses the occurrences as a pretext to send troops to assist the patrol. The paper, focusing on the difference of collaborative patrol and joint patrol and the formulation of the cooperative mechanism by the three littoral countries in the present Malacca Straits maritime security, analyzes their advantages, shortcomings and potential ways among the littoral countries and the international community.
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