{"id":62398,"date":"2024-03-07T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/07\/big-bullies-maldives-turns-away-from-india-as-calculating-china-woos-it-with-aid"},"modified":"2024-03-07T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T01:00:38","slug":"big-bullies-maldives-turns-away-from-india-as-calculating-china-woos-it-with-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62398","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big bullies\u2019: Maldives turns away from India as calculating China woos it with aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence deal signed by islands\u2019 pro-Beijing president has ignited a row with powerful neighbour and benefactor<\/p>\n<p>Since Mohamed Muizzu was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/01\/pro-china-candidate-mohamed-muizzu-wins-maldives-presidency-upending-relationship-with-india\">elected president of the Maldives in September<\/a>, a wave of anti-India sentiment has swept the country. This week, it was made clear to New Delhi exactly where his government\u2019s allegiances now lie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no Indian troops in the country come 10 May. Not in uniform and not in civilian clothing. The Indian military will not be residing in this country in any form of clothing. I state this with confidence,\u201d Muizzu said in a public address on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/07\/big-bullies-maldives-turns-away-from-india-as-calculating-china-woos-it-with-aid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence deal signed by islands\u2019 pro-Beijing president has ignited a row with powerful neighbour and benefactorSince Mohamed Muizzu was elected president of the Maldives in September, a wave of anti-India sentiment has swept the country. This week, it w&#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-62398","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\/62398","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=62398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62433,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62398\/revisions\/62433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}