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Abstract Thanks to the geographical advantages of choke points in Maritime Strategic Thoroughfares, countries managing choke points have less hindered, cheaper and more efficient access to foreign resources and markets necessary for national development than other countries. Managing pattern transformation of the choke points mean fundamental changes of ownership structures on geographical dominance, in which two variables play decisive roles: changes in geographical advantages of choke points and the capabilitybased competition among the countries that harness the choke points. When emerging countries harnessing the choke points expands their overseas ties, they will become increasingly dependent on the geographical advantages of the choke points. In the process, these countries are prone to invest more strength and resources in the region, which give rise to three kinds of managing pattern transformation: the number of countries as managers; the structures of capabilitybased competition among countries as comanagers and the authority of the sole country as manager.
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