There are 77 Indian military personnel currently present in the Maldives. But that will soon change, says the new president Mohamed Muizzu.
This therefore marks a distancing from the Indian neighbor and a rapprochement with the other Chinese regional force. A Chinese surveillance boat is due to arrive in Maldives in the coming days, which is of great concern to India, whose coast is only a few hundred kilometers away. The culmination of a long campaign by the new head of state hostile to India. And a possible rapproches with China.