India's five-year general election has begun, but the current Prime Minister Modi has already decided the matter of "three consecutive terms" ahead of schedule, and there is only one "formal" vote left. As a result, Modi, who had his hands free, began to "strike first" against China, this time targeting the Maldives, which India has long regarded as its "traditional backyard".
Voting in India's general election will not be completed until June 1, and the results will be announced on June 4. India's current Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are determined to win two-thirds of the seats in parliament (370 seats), while the BJP currently has more than 70% support according to nationwide opinion polls. It can be said that Modi's "three consecutive terms" became a foregone conclusion from the beginning, and there was hardly any suspense.
(India's general election began last weekend, and Modi is likely to be re-elected)
As a result, Modi, who had his hands free, began to "strike first" at China's "string of pearls" layout around India, and this time he targeted the Maldives, which India has long regarded as its "traditional backyard". Maldivian President Muiz only won the election at the end of last year, and he has shown a clear tendency to "leave India and be pro-China", so he is regarded by the Indian government as a "thorn in the side" and must be ousted. As a result, India began to agitate the country's pro-India opposition parties to demand an investigation of Muisz on the grounds of "corruption" and called for impeachment.
Just last weekend, elections to the Maldives parliament began, so India is looking to support opposition parties to win a majority of seats in parliament.
Since coming to power, Muiz first paid a state visit to China, and then officially launched the expulsion of Indian troops from the Maldives, withdrawing troops from March this year and withdrawing all troops from May this year. At the same time, the Maldives has also signed a large number of cooperation agreements with China, including military cooperation agreements, and has begun to embrace China's Belt and Road Initiative in all aspects.
The reason for such a major change in the Maldives' foreign policy is inseparable from China's presence in the country and its economic experience in the Indian Ocean region over the past decade. Since China's historic visit to the Maldives in 2014 at the highest level, China has promoted the rapid development of China-Malaysia relations under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, which has finally led to a major change in the country's political climate.
India is clearly not willing to watch China's influence enter its "backyard" and grow step by step. Therefore, after Modi solved the top priority of his re-election, he immediately resorted to "off-the-board moves" against Muiz. The pro-India political nature of the opposition party in the Maldives is obvious, and it is clearly supported by India's intelligence agencies, so it was able to obtain classified documents from 2018 from the Maldives Monetary Authority's Financial Intelligence Unit and the country's police to promote the investigation and even impeachment of President Moiz.
(In the parliamentary elections of the Maldives, the "People's National Congress Party" to which President Muiz belongs won a resounding victory)
However, the latest news is that after the vote of Maldivian voters, President Muiz's "People's National Congress Party" (PNC) has won 66 of the 93 seats in the Maldivian parliament, and has won a supermajority of seats before all the votes are completed, while the main pro-Indian opposition party, the "Maldives Democratic Party" (MDP), has only won a dozen seats and is no longer able to recover.
In the last parliament, President Moiz's People's Congress Party had only eight seats, while the opposition party had a supermajority. It can be said that the people of the Maldives have used their votes to squeeze the pro-India forces into a corner, and they will not be able to make a big storm for at least some time.
(China-Malaysia Friendship Bridge built by China has solved a big problem for the Maldives)
This result is inseparable from India's long-standing bullying of the Maldives. The Maldives, like other countries in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, is geographically, geopolitically and historically more closely linked to India, so India has a home field advantage here. But the problem with India is that almost all of its country, from top to bottom, from elites to commoners, believes that India is qualified to "inherit" all the "interests" left by the British colonizers in South Asia and the Indian Ocean.
However, India does not have the strength of Britain, and its evil behavior is the same as that of Britain in the past, engaging in diplomatic pressure, internal political manipulation, economic coercion, and even direct armed intervention against all neighboring countries.
India ordered the Maldives not to cooperate with China, but India cannot provide the infrastructure construction, 5G network, green energy and other infrastructure that the Maldives urgently needs, and at the same time, Chinese tourists have become the first source of customers for the Maldives' tourism industry more than ten years ago (only in the past two years of the epidemic, the number of Chinese tourists surpassed India again), how can the Maldives not be anti-India?
(The new residential area in the Maldives built by a Chinese company has solved the housing problem of the Maldivian people)
The results of the parliamentary election in the Maldives show that China's layout in the Indian Ocean for more than 10 years is effective, and with the further deepening of China-Malaysia cooperation, it is unlikely that India will want to "stir up" China's layout in the Maldives, which may be the first slap in the face after Modi won the new prime minister's term.
And the Bangladeshi opposition has begun to organize the "Get Out of India" campaign, just as the Maldives did in previous years. We can predict that as long as the Indians do not give up their inexplicable "self-confidence" in their neighbors, such slaps will come one after another.