For decades, the Strait of Hormuz was treated as a vulnerability in theory but a certainty in practice — a chokepoint too consequential to be truly threatened. The conflict of 2026 has dissolved that assumption, revealing how deeply the world's most dynamic economies depend on a narrow passage between Iran and Oman, and how swiftly the architecture of global energy security can be called into question. Asian nations, from Tokyo to Beijing to New Delhi, are now reckoning with the distance between the supply chains they built and the resilience they actually need — a reckoning that will reshape