Pacific Pivot: Maldives Cosying Up To China
April 26th, 2024
Via The Economist, a report on the Maldives’ growing closeness with China: The maldives tends to evoke images of cocktails enjoyed on pristine white beaches framed by gently swaying palm trees. Thoughts of geopolitics rarely feature. Yet they were to the fore this week as the People’s National Congress, the party of President Mohamed Muizzu, won […]
Read more »Maldives Vows China-backed Building Boom, Indians Out
April 24th, 2024
Via Energy Daily, an article on Maldives recent support of a China-backed building boom: The Maldives will press on with Chinese-backed construction and evict Indian troops from the strategically placed atoll nation, President Mohamed Muizzu’s office said Tuesday, two days after his party’s stunning parliamentary victory. He thanked voters for the landslide victory by his People’s […]
Read more »Belt & Road: Chinese Techno-Nationalism in Maldives
April 9th, 2024
Via Asia Times, a look at how the ‘Digital Silk Road’ has the potential of allowing China to play king of the castle in the Indian Ocean region: The Maldives’ recent turn toward China and away from India has boosted Beijing’s long-term push for regional control and disrupted New Delhi’s ambition to match Chinese strategic competitiveness in […]
Read more »The Maldives Is a Tiny Paradise. Why Are China and India Fighting Over It?
March 6th, 2024
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on the Maldives, an island nation into which Asia’s two giants are crowding with building projects, tossing its newborn democracy to and fro: Between a few flecks of coral in the Indian Ocean, a ribbon of highway more than a mile long swoops up from the blue. […]
Read more »Maldives Signals Tilt Toward China
January 16th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at the Maldives relationship with China and India: President Mohamed Muizzu’s recent visit to China signals a significant shift in the Maldives’ foreign policy, one that is overtly tilted in favor of Beijing. The shift came amidst a visible fraying in India-Maldives relations in recent weeks. In China, Muizzu expressed strong commitment […]
Read more »Maldives President Courts Chinese as Indian Ties Sag
January 9th, 2024
Courtesy of Reuters, a report on Maldives’ interest in Chinese investment: New Maldives president in China ahead of any visit to India Maldivian president Muizzu set to meet China’s Xi Jinping Muizzu to seek more Chinese investment, trade, tourists World Bank warns “lack of domestic investment opportunities” At an “Invest Maldives” forum in a southern […]
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