Ấn Độ và Maldives công kích lẫn nhau sau chuyến thăm bãi biển của Thủ tướng Modi

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It started with a postcard-perfect snapshot (ảnh chụp nhanh). An image of India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, lounging (ngồi thư giãn) in a chair on a secluded (hẻo lánh) white-sand beach, provoked heated words from officials in the Maldives, a tiny archipelago (quần đảo) nation in the Indian Ocean.

Indians on social media reacted with a ferocious (dữ dội) wave of indignation (phẫn nộ), causing ripples (chấn động) all the way to Beijing.

Mr. Modi had been posing for a series of pictures to highlight the beachy natural beauty of the islands called Lakshadweep, an Indian territory 150 miles from the mainland and just 100 miles north of the Maldives.

Lakshadweep is like a mini Maldives, with barely a tenth of the landmass of the more famous atolls (đảo san hô) to its south. The people on Minicoy, its southernmost (cực nam) island, speak the same language as they do in the Maldives, and preserve some of its oldest customs.

source: nytimes,