alt Hacker NewsEast Asia has extensive coastal medium-distance trade. There are so many islands and island nations. That's oceanic trade, but not transatlantic or trans-pacific long hauls.
East Asia has extensive coastal medium-distance trade. There are so many islands and island nations. That's oceanic trade, but not transatlantic or trans-pacific long hauls.
Those small islands also don’t have any infrastructure to recharge such ships. The small ones often struggle even to serve their own needs.