{"id":58829,"date":"2023-09-29T14:59:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/29\/maldives-election-run-off-pitched-as-fork-in-the-road-between-india-and-china"},"modified":"2023-09-29T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:59:19","slug":"maldives-election-run-off-pitched-as-fork-in-the-road-between-india-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58829","title":{"rendered":"Maldives election run-off pitched as fork in the road between India and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-China presidential candidate Mohamed Muizzu accuses incumbent Mohamed Solih of allowing traditional benefactor India too much influence  <\/p>\n<p>As the archipelago of the Maldives goes to an election run-off on Saturday, it will not just be two presidential candidates on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>This election is being pitched as a larger geopolitical battle between India and China, which over the past decade have been engaged in a tug-of-war to gain influence over the Maldives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/29\/maldives-election-run-off-pitched-as-fork-in-the-road-between-india-and-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-China presidential candidate Mohamed Muizzu accuses incumbent Mohamed Solih of allowing traditional benefactor India too much influence  As the archipelago of the Maldives goes to an election run-off on Saturday, it will not just be two presidentia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,62,1091,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india","category-maldives","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58830,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58829\/revisions\/58830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}