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The History of Pirates in the South China Sea
This kind of throwback crime, if you will, is highly unusual. Most of the ships are probably locals going after other near locals or at least regional powers. There was some piracy in another very important shipping lane off Indonesia in the late 1990s and early 2000s. So it tends to be groups who need money for some sort of civil war.