India should offer the Maldives statehood within our Union, says M P Anil

[Spring Onion]

Visa row with India solved: Maldives - Times Of India

Aagaye aukd par

With Eye on China, India Embraces Maldives

Aaye chinki gaye bankar pinki. There govt can do sh@t w/o India . Dragon has no presence in Maldives strategically.

Meanwhile

India’s ONGC Will Continue to Explore Offshore Vietnam, Much to China’s Discontent | gCaptain - Maritime & Offshore News

All these news reports proves that India bowed down after failing to pressurise Maldvies through visa blackmailing

 

[SwatCat]

All these news reports proves that India bowed down after failing to pressurise Maldvies through visa blackmailing

The reports suggest otherwise.

It was Maldives which sorted out the problem of visas with India.

 

[scarcry]

Jab lathi parta hai to batti bujhta hain ignore the pakistanis they have coup in their country, btw in article "a chastened Maldivian government"

chastened past participle, past tense of chas·ten
Verb
(of a reproof or misfortune) Have a restraining or moderating effect on: "the director was chastened by his recent flops".

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

But you are openly threatening freedom of navigation. That is not a good way to behave, it could hurt your international image.
Even the Iranian did not dare to be this blatant.
So far nobody object because nobody is actually taking you seriously.

Thats cos no top level officers have openly stated this again and again. Do u think its for fun, a tri services command was operationalised at the Island Tip of Nicobar Islands?

China openly threatens to board vessels passing through SCS, Iran threatens to block the straits, cos its their backyards, their strengths.

The world knows we are a responsible power, and we wont block the straits even at the slightest of provocations.

War between INdia and China is not going to happen, and even if it happens, blocking only will be a last retort.