Maldivian President Mohammed Moiz will begin his visit to China on January 8, the Maldives President's first foreign trip in 2024 is to break the Maldives tradition, before the Maldives President first export visit, must choose India, but Maldives President Mohammed Moiz has visited many countries before, and will choose China for the first foreign trip in 2024, highlighting the great change in the foreign strategy of the Mohammed Moiz government. Mohammed Moiz became the president-elect of the Maldives by winning the general election in the Maldives in September 2023, and Mohammed Mouiz showed a tough stance on India during the election campaign.
The Maldives has long been a traditional ally of India, and India has even deployed military forces in the Maldives, and after Mohammed Muiz became president of the Maldives, he publicly said no to India and demanded that India withdraw its troops from the Maldives in order to fulfill the promises made during the election campaign. Muhammad Muiz is openly demanding that India withdraw its troops from the Maldives in the international arena, and in the face of Mohammed Moiz's tough stance in the international arena, Indian Prime Minister Modi is very embarrassed, because India has no reason to deploy military forces in the Maldives, the Maldives is a country with tourism as the mainstay of its economy, and there is no security threat, while India maintains the deployment of military forces in the Maldives.
For a long time, India has been infiltrating and controlling neighboring countries, since the partition of India and Pakistan, India's infiltration of neighboring countries has begun, and India still has a great influence on countries including Nepal and Bhutan, in fact, India has also been implementing a strategy of infiltration and influence on the Maldives for a long time, so it will deploy military forces in the Maldives. India is trying to turn the Indian Ocean into a sea area under India's deterrent control, and for this reason it will insist on exerting influence on the Maldives, but due to India's lack of economic strength, it will not bring economic benefits to the Maldives when it affects the Maldives, which creates a very embarrassing situation.
Mohammed Moiz, as president of the Maldives, has been gradually changing the relationship between the Maldives and India, and Mohammed Mouiz wants to get rid of India's huge influence on the Maldives, starting with the demand that India withdraw its troops from the Maldives. Faced with the tough position of Mohammad Muiz, the Indian Prime Minister had to publicly agree to the withdrawal of troops from the Maldives. India's long-term operations in the Maldives are actually aimed at China, and India has a long-term strategy in the Indian Ocean, including the establishment of military bases to try to deter the PLA.
In response to Mohammed Muiz's demand that India withdraw its troops from the Maldives and the Maldivian president's departure from the previous tradition to visit China first in 2024, the Indian media has been unable to hold back, claiming that India's important allies have been poached by China. In fact, India is "seeking a hammer to get a hammer", because India considers itself "superior" and will not adopt a model of equal treatment for the Maldives, but will carry out all kinds of interference in the Maldives, which obviously does not have the support of the Maldives, so there is the current situation.