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Findings may include language the outlet is quoting rather than asserting. We flag manipulation techniques wherever they appear, including inside quotations — so check each quote against the original before drawing a conclusion about the outlet.
The term 'double chokehold' is emotionally charged and visceral, evoking physical suffocation to provoke anxiety rather than neutrally describing a shipping bottleneck — for example: double chokehold
“double chokehold”
The framing that 'the region and the world' are under threat creates broad, sweeping anxiety about dire consequences affecting everyone — for example: putting the region and the world in what shipping experts call a 'double chokehold'
“putting the region and the world in what shipping experts call a "double chokehold"”
The phrase 'We know that they can' is repeated across sentences 2, 3, and 4 to reinforce the threat through familiarity — for example: We know that they can hijack a vessel
“We know that they can hijack a vessel”
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