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Bad news from the Maldives: India needs to get neighbourhood act together

Chinese presence in Maldives is set to increase. Maldives’ pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu ruling People's National Congress (PNC) has won a supermajority in the Maldives Parliament by bagging 60 seats in the parliamentary elections held on April 21. With Muizzu’s emphatic win, the rhetoric in our media has shifted to the drop in Indian tourists to the Maldives and how Maldives attracts about 25 per cent of its GDP directly from tourism.