Published on : Wednesday, February 14, 2018
As the political crisis is deepening in Maldives, India is under the deep diplomatic pressure, as China is emerging as the nation which helps President Abdulla Yameen to form anti India attitudes.
Maldives has knowingly ignored India and chose to cuddle with Pakistan and China, as President Abdulla Yameen announced a 15-day emergency in the country –and that it is yet another proof of China waging a proxy war against India.
Though the Maldives government has refuted the charges, the political opinion makers in India believe the archipelago nation’s anti-India message is loud and clear.
The Maldives’ participation in the Xi Jinping’s One Belt One Road Initiative, infrastructural projects that China is developing in the island nation, and most notably the Free Trade Agreement between the two nations, which gives Chinese goods 24x7x365 open season in the island nation.
The exiled former Maldives president Ahmed Nasheed even went on to ask for India’s military intervention. He also alleged that the Chinese infrastructural investments are more of a land grab and that Chinese interests had leased at least 16 islets among the 1,192 scattered coral islands and were building ports and other infrastructure there. According to some reports, China is already developing artificial islands in the Maldives, much like in the South China Sea. Though China has denied these allegations, its involvement in the Maldives has put India in a tight spot.
The recent infrastructural investments aren’t the only thing binding the Maldives and China together. For starters, China provides the maximum number of tourists from a single country to Maldives tourism sector.
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