First, an anti-India tenor to Mohammed Muizzu's presidential election campaign in the Maldives. Then a boycott-Maldives social media campaign in India, followed by President Muizzu's visit to China.
During the visit, the Maldives signed not just agreements with China in tourism cooperation, disaster risk reduction, blue economy and investment in the digital economy, but also elevation of their bilateral ties to a Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership (CSCP).
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"By signing the CSCP agreement with China, President Muizzu has sent a clear signal to India that the Maldives' dealings with India will be on a different plane than before," Colonel Ramani Hariharan, a retired military intelligence specialist on South Asia who is associated with the Chennai Centre for China Studies, tells Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier.
