Maldives Crisis

INSTABILITY IN MALDIVES AND ITS IMPACT ON INDIA- MALDIVE RELATIONSHIP

        

          India has once again found itself in middle of the crisis in its neighborhood. This time it is Maldives. Maldives is a south Asian island country located in Indian ocean in Arabian sea. A political crisis has arised in Maldives after President Abdulla Yameen decided to disobey the supreme court order to release 9 political prisoners. On February 5, 2018 he has declared the state of emergency and ordered the arrest of two supreme court judges. Former President Mohammad Nasheed said that Yameen does not have enough support from the lawmakers. 
               The relationship between Male i.e. capital of Maldives and Beijing i.e. capital of China are at its peak now. The Maldives is important to India but not enough to pull India into an unnecessary face-off with China. Maldives’s once strong relationship with India has been strained by China’s increasing economic influence. India’s intervention in neighborhood i.e. in Nepal’s new constitution was also not good. The chance is that India will drive Male towards China’s sphere of influence which India does not want to happen. India should maintain its political pressure on Male while keeping the options for dialogue open. In case of Maldives, instead of leadership change,  India should look at more systematic and institutional change as its key national interest. The Maldives have grown into a bigger headache for Indian foreign policy. A mere leadership change would not necessarily change this.
 

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