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Wen Zhanhai. According to Xinhua News Agency, two months ago, the Maldives ** Muiz visited China and issued a joint communiqué with China, announcing the establishment of a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. According to Phoenix.com, a press conference was held immediately after Muiz returned homeThe call calls for India to fully withdraw its troops from the Maldives by March 15.
Malé, the capital of the Maldives).
India wailed about this, blaming China for the Maldives' request for India to withdraw its troops, saying that it was under the influence of ChinaIndia's loss of foothold in the Maldives has led to a temporary weakening of India's control over the Indian Ocean, which is a significant loss for India. However, India will soon make up for the loss, as it is building a new naval aviation base in India's Lakshadweep Islands, about 507 kilometers from the Maldives, as an alternative to the Maldives.
The Maldives consists of a chain of archipelagos, with the Lakshadweep archipelago in its north, closer to India).
It is understood that the new base opened by India is called the Jaatayu base, which is located on the island of Minikoy on the Lakshadweep Islands, which is located near the Ninth Strait, and the Ninth Strait, as a strait between Lakshadweep Island and Minikooi Island, is named because it is at 9 degrees north latitude, and this strait is also one of the busiest shipping routes in the Indian Ocean. It is understood that the time for India to settle in the new base is the same day as the deadline for the Maldives to demand the withdrawal of Indian troops, which means that there is no break in the presence of India's overseas bases in the Indian Ocean.
Indian television shows reported footage of the inauguration of 2 aircraft carriers to the Jaatayu base).
To celebrate the inauguration of the Jaatayu base, the Indian Navy will be dispatched by Indian Defence Minister Manmohan Singh, the USS Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier Task Force, the INS Vikrant Aircraft Carrier Task Force, and a number of Indian Navy** to attend the unveiling ceremony of the base. can allow the Indian Navy to send out all the two aircraft carriers at home, which shows that the "platoon" of this base is indeed not small.
Why did India choose Minikoi Island, near the Ninth Degree Strait, for its new naval base? The reason is simpleTake control of shipping in the Indian Ocean. First of all, despite the impression that the Maldives is a scenic tourist destination, in fact the Maldives is geographically determined by its importance in the Indian Ocean, where the islands are scattered over a 960-kilometer-long ridge that runs from north to south, forming a "wall" in the central part of the Indian Ocean. In the south and north of the Maldives, there are two gaps, and these two gaps are now important shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean, all ships that need to pass through the Strait of Malacca, the Gulf of Aden, and the Strait of Hormuz need to pass through these two sea lines of communication, so India** compares the Maldives to "the toll station in the Indian Ocean".
Maldives ** Muiz announced that it would no longer accept Indian troops).
Today, the toll booths in the Indian Ocean are no longer under India's control, and India can only find other islands near the shipping lanes to increase its military presence, so as to achieve "control" of the Indian Ocean. India is also planning to build a new large airport on the air base, which will allow not only military aircraft to take off and land, but also passenger or cargo planes to boost tourism in the area. In addition, India plans to expand the airport on the nearby island of Agadi.
As a regional power, India dreams of being a world power, not only trying to benchmark itself against China in various fields, regarding China as an adversary, but also imagining itself to be the controller of the Indian Ocean. However, with the successive "awakening" of the small countries in the Indian Ocean, many countries are no longer looking at India, and India, which is not strong enough to control these small countries, has no good way to control these small countries, and now after the Maldives "suffered a setback", it can still want to regain face on other islands, but with the development of time, how many small countries in the Indian Ocean are willing to listen to India in the future is still a problem.