Victory of Pro-China Candidate In Maldives Is A Wake-Up Call For India
For India, losing goodwill in the Maldives can prove costly, especially in the light of the Chinese strategy of ‘String of Pearls’. Eliminating Indian influence from South Asia outright may be an impossible goal. But developments over the last two decades have shown that China has steadily encroached and made gains in India’s backyardIt is often the case that smaller but strategically important