It's great to call China an "important ally"!
China is an important ally" was expressed during the Maldives** visit to China. This statement is significant.
According to the Maldives** government**, Mouiz** and his wife arrived in China on the morning of January 8 with a high-level delegation for a state visit.
This visit was Muiz's first visit to another country for state activities since taking office.
Muiz's first destination was Xiamen, China, where he visited the Xiamen Free Trade Zone and met with representatives of China Communications Construction Group.
The actual reason is very simple: let the Maldives ** understand the development status of Xiamen, determine the location of cooperation, and let China carry out the construction!
In short, China can build ports and industries for the Maldives as long as it agrees, and make it China's leading transit point in the Indian Ocean.
In this way, as a Maldives with a population of only 500,000, wouldn't this be a big profit?
At that time, it is not only Chinese tourists who bring income to the Maldives, but also if it becomes China's transit point in the Indian Ocean, the Maldives will make money day by day, which can be said to have obtained huge benefit support!
After taking office, Muiz of the Maldives first expelled the Indian garrison, and then strengthened cooperation with China.
This shows that he is deeply aware that the future of the world is in China, so only by cooperating with China can the Maldives get development opportunities!
Imagine that the Maldives is such a small country and there are Indian troops stationed there, how can this establish a good cooperative relationship with China?
Isn't the Indian garrison an obstacle to deepening cooperation between China and Malaysia?
Therefore, after coming to power, he first removed the obstacles of India in this regard.
Please note one detail, this visit is not an ordinary visit, but a state visit.
A state visit is a visit by a head of state at the invitation of another head of state.
The reception was very formal and fully in accordance with diplomatic protocols. It usually involves laying out the red carpet, reviewing the guard of honor, firing a 21-gun salute, and the host country usually sends a senior protocol officer to meet them at the airport.
As the guest of honor, the Chinese head of state personally invited the Maldives** for a state visit, which obviously means that the two sides have important cooperation plans.
During Moiz's state visit, China and the Maldives will reportedly hold formal talks and sign important agreements to strengthen professional development and socio-economic cooperation. The visit will also promote cooperation between the two countries in technical and other fields.
What does this report indicate?It shows that the Maldives will not only enjoy China's support in the Indian Ocean** transit terminal, but will also receive support from other related industries, including socio-economic cooperation. What is socio-economic cooperation?For example, China's cooperation with the Solomon Islands is a case in point, with China's support for the Solomon Islands helping it resist the social unrest that Western countries are trying to create, and even urgently airlifted explosion-proof police equipment and provided professional training for Solomon Islands police. What small country wouldn't want such support?Of course, the Maldives also hopes!
On January 8, Muiz arrived in Xiamen, visited the Xiamen Free Trade Zone, and held talks with representatives of China Communications Construction Group.
Obviously, the meeting was about the construction of the port!At a meeting with CCCG representatives on the same day, Muiz stressed the importance of China as an important ally and indispensable partner in the development of the Maldives.
He expressed the hope that bilateral relations will be raised to new heights and cooperation in various fields will be strengthened. CCCG representatives expressed their strong interest and commitment to contribute to the development of the Maldives. For his part, Muiz reaffirmed his leadership's unwavering commitment to strengthening economic and commercial ties between the two countries.
I have to say that the new ** in the Maldives is indeed an expert, his specialty is infrastructure construction, how to promote the development of the Maldives, and how to use China's infrastructure capacity to promote the development of the Maldives. Therefore, he does not claim that China is an "important ally", but he genuinely believes it.
Obviously, this visit to China by the Maldives marks the beginning of cooperation between the two countries. The new Mouiz has just taken office, which means he has a five-year term, during which time China and Malaysia can collaborate on many projects.
One of the highlights of his visit to China was his participation in the Maldives Investment Forum in Fuzhou to strengthen socio-economic relations with Chinese business leaders. To put it simply, it is the Maldives** to attract investment in China.
You can imagine that if a Chinese tourism group invested in the construction of a full range of tourism services such as hotels there, and then promoted the overseas tourism of Chinese tourists, wouldn't the Maldives make a lot of money?
Muiz was eloquent, saying at the forum that China-Malaysia relations have a long history, dating back to the ancient Maritime Silk Road.
He also stressed that China remains one of the Maldives' "closest allies and development partners". He highlighted the FTA signed by the two countries and identified increasing exports of aquatic products to China as one of the key priorities.
Obviously, Muiz saw a business opportunity for Japan's nuclear sewage to be discharged into the sea, so we stopped importing seafood from Japan, and some seafood in the Pacific Ocean was bound to be affected, but the Indian Ocean was not polluted, so seafood there was bound to be welcomed.
Ninety-nine per cent of the territory of the Maldives is marine, and aquatic products account for more than 98 per cent of total exports. The country's fishing industry is the main employment**, and China is the world's largest market and the most potential market, so a lot of seafood is exported to China, which is a great thing.
China-Malaysia cooperation is booming, and India and Sri Lanka may be quite unsettling when they hear the Maldives** see China as an important ally!
Both India and Sri Lanka have a special relationship with the Maldives!India has always regarded the Maldives as an area of vital interest and has previously had a military presence.
After the new ** came to power, the first thing he did was to withdraw the Japanese garrison, and then the first state visit was not to India but to China, which clearly shows that the diplomatic focus of the new Maldives** is tilting towards China.
If its neighbors have turned to other countries, India will feel uncomfortable, right?
Therefore, the news of the Maldives' visit to China immediately aroused great concern in India.
India** such as The Times of India and New Delhi's NDTV have reported that Muiz sees China as an important ally, while also mentioning the recent diplomatic dispute between India and the Maldives over the "competition for tourists".
In fact, the "competition for tourists" is just an excuse, so wouldn't India be able to do without those few tourists?
The real problem is that the Maldives new **, realizing that India is an obstacle to their development, decided to expel the Indian garrison.
As a result, India tried to compete with the Maldives for tourists in an attempt to pressure the Maldives**, but the result was that the Maldives** turned directly to China.
India** was very "surprised" by the new visit to the Maldives, as India had usually been chosen for the first visit to the Maldives in the past.
In November last year, after taking the oath of office, Muiz chose Turkey over India for his first foreign tripI didn't go to India when I attended the UN COP28 meeting in December;Now, the destination he chose for his first state visit is China, which has nothing to do with India.
Obviously, the two countries are at loggerheads.
India reported that Muiz has a different policy from his predecessor, Saleh, who advocated "Maldives first" in an attempt to reduce India's influence in the Maldives.
On November 18 last year, the day after Muiz officially became the Maldives**, the Maldives** formally demanded that India withdraw its troops.
For this visit, China has positioned it as "a new historical starting point for China-Malaysia relations".
So why is Sri Lanka upset?The answer is simple: if China builds a port in the Maldives, it will compete with Sri Lanka's ports.
Recently, however, Sri Lanka has been somewhat biased towards India, following India in making some political moves towards China.
The Port of Colombo, which China has invested in Sri Lanka, is vital to the Sri Lankan economy.
Don't forget that it was China that made concessions last year that allowed Sri Lanka to regain access to IMO loans, and they were ungrateful.
If Sri Lanka had not been so unstable, China would not have considered building another port in the Maldives.
Now, as the Maldives wants to develop an independent foreign policy, trying to get rid of India's influence, China is seizing the opportunity.