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| India-Pakistan |
| Political crisis in the Maldives |
| 2018-02-17 |
| [NEWAGEBD.NET] IT SEEMS as if the political temperature in the Indian Ocean region is not going to ’settle down’, as we predicted a week ago, but has already started to rise. That is demonstrated by the worsening situation in the Maldives, which is taking on the character of an internal political crisis, although in this case there has been an external element in this crisis right from the beginning. The external element in question is the increasing competition between India and China (the two main regional powers) in the Indian Ocean region as a whole. Incidentally, ’on the horizon’ of the events in the Maldives we can also see the leading world power ‐ the USA ‐ and there is little doubt whose side it is on. The reason the Maldives have attracted so much attention is clear. This country, which has been independent since 1965 and has a population of approximately 400, 000 and which is made up of several hundred coral islands spread out from North to South over a thousand kilometres, is located right in the path of one of the main global transport arteries. |
| Posted by:Fred |