{"id":58876,"date":"2023-10-01T08:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T23:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/01\/pro-china-candidate-mohamed-muizzu-wins-maldives-presidency-upending-relationship-with-india"},"modified":"2023-10-01T08:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T23:44:18","slug":"pro-china-candidate-mohamed-muizzu-wins-maldives-presidency-upending-relationship-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58876","title":{"rendered":"Pro-China candidate Mohamed Muizzu wins Maldives presidency, upending relationship with India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Runoff vote was widely seen as a referendum on whether to pursue closer ties with China or India, both vying for influence in the island nation<\/p>\n<p>Pro-China candidate Mohamed Muizzu won Saturday\u2019s presidential election in the Maldives, a result set to once again upend the archipelago\u2019s relationship with traditional partner India.<\/p>\n<p>Muizzu helms a party that presided over an influx of Chinese loans when it last held power in the atoll nation, better known for its luxury beach resorts and celebrity tourists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/01\/pro-china-candidate-mohamed-muizzu-wins-maldives-presidency-upending-relationship-with-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runoff vote was widely seen as a referendum on whether to pursue closer ties with China or India, both vying for influence in the island nationPro-China candidate Mohamed Muizzu won Saturday\u2019s presidential election in the Maldives, a result set to once&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-58876","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"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58876","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58877,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58876\/revisions\/58877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}