Maldives: Maldives President's China policies create threat in Indian Ocean

The government of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom in Maldives is disturbing the balance of power in the Indian Ocean by wooing China, an Opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) leader and presidential candidate Mohd Nasheed said.

"Flirting with China for very short-term gains is cheap politics, [it is] not in the best interests of Maldives or the Indian Ocean," he said in an interaction with serving and retired diplomats, and opinion makers, at Observer Research Foundation here, Asian Age reported.

The 41-year-old leader of a fledgling political party said with unusual candour that the "dictatorship" of President Gayoom, his China policy and Islamisation of the Maldivian society were creating security threats in the India Ocean area.

"Maldives' security and stability are linked to India," he added for good measure, to dispel a perception that his party is Eurocentric.

China has established a base in Marao and helped to build the Maldivian foreign ministry in Male.

Source: IRNA

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