Mohamed Muizzu’s government in the Maldives is caught in a melee. Having stormed to power over a hyper-nationalist poll campaign against “Indian military presence”, just four months later, it’s now requesting China to send in more tourists to the island nation after a diplomatic stand-off with India and the looming threat of an Indian tourism boycott.
But that isn’t the only strain of irony to that Indo-Pacific tale, it seems.
