A few days ago, on the deadline given by the Maldives, India finally withdrew the last military personnel stationed in the Maldives, which means that India's control over the Maldives has completely collapsed, and India's control over the Indian Ocean has been basically lost.
The Maldives is to India what Japan is to the United States, and the stationing of US troops in Japan is the foundation for the implementation of the "Indo-Pacific strategy" and the prerequisite for the United States to achieve hegemony in the western Pacific. Similarly, India's presence in the Maldives is also the foundation of India's control of the Indian Ocean, so the importance of the Maldives to India is equivalent to that of Japan in the eyes of the United States.
Some people asked, if the Maldives is so important to India, why is it so easy to drive the Indian army away?
On the one hand, the Maldives is backed by the great powers of the East; On the other hand, the timing of this wave to drive away the Indian army was very clever.
In recent times, India has been largely in a state of chaos, with more than 2,600 parties vying for 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, the largest and most chaotic election in the world. Such an election makes Modi dare not take it lightly, so recently, Modi's main focus has been on the election, and the importance of other things has been much weaker, so the withdrawal of troops from the Maldives can be completed so smoothly.
With the withdrawal of Indian troops from the Maldives and the rapid advancement of China-Malaysia cooperation, we can now basically conclude that China has basically completed its strategic encirclement of India.
From the ports of Iran, the Gwadar ports of Pakistan, to the ports of Kyaukpyu in the Maldives and Myanmar, it is said that the next step is Sri Lanka, and China and Sri Lanka will reach an agreement in the near future.
In addition to the "island chain" on the sea, we also have a layout on land.
For example, in the cooperation between China and Nepal, Nepal has now made a thorough statement of its attitude and asked China to finalize the implementation plan of the "Belt and Road" initiative in Nepal as soon as possible. In addition, there is a Bhutan that is about to move, and the Bhutanese royal family has tried to break away from India's military control by disbanding the king's army, and India has been crushed down. But the disbandment of the Kingdom Army is not Bhutan's hole card, what is the real hole card?
The neighbor to the north, of course.
According to the mutual assistance treaty signed between India and Bhutan, India has the right to direct Bhutan's diplomacy, but Bhutan has bypassed India and achieved border reconciliation with China, giving up the "sovereignty" of the Doklam area that India has always claimed for it. Recently, the US media looked at satellite images and found that China was building a large construction project in northern Bhutan, and it was suspected that there was a big move, and the United States immediately warned India that it might pose a threat to India's interests.
So India is now in an embattled state, and it is not far from being locked down. At that time, this account between China and India, especially the disputed issue in the border areas, can be properly calculated.