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Maldives là thiên đường nhỏ. Vì sao Trung Quốc và Ấn Độ đấu tranh vì địa điểm này?
07 Mar, 2024
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Between a few flecks (vết lốm đốm) of coral (san hô) in the Indian Ocean, a ribbon of highway more than a mile long swoops up from the blue. Since 2018, the China-Maldives Friendship Bridge has connected this archipelago’s (quần đảo) hyper-dense capital, Malé, and the international airport — expanded by Chinese companies — one island to the east.
But China is not alone in chasing friendship with the Maldives. A 20-minute walk across the capital, next to Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital, an even longer sea bridge will link Malé with islands to the west. This one is being built by Indian workers, with money from India.
The Maldives, a tiny tourism-dependent country of 500,000 people, barely registers as a blip (đốm sáng trên màn hình radar) alongside India and China, the world’s most populous nations (quốc gia đông dân). Yet every blip counts in the two giants’ competition (cuộc đua) for influence across (ảnh hưởng xuyên suốt) South Asia, and that has set the Maldives on a zigzagging course between them.
The disruption to relations offered a contrast with China, which exerts supreme message control. That gives it the ability to negotiate effectively with smaller countries behind closed doors. Beijing may be less comfortable (thoải mái) with the Maldives’ new democracy (nền dân chủ mới) than New Delhi is, but it has navigated relations (quan hệ điều hướng) just as adeptly.
One of the most visible is a giant expansion (mở rộng khổng lồ) of an airport on the island of Hanimaadhoo, an hour’s flight north from Malé. It is home to one of the planes used by the Indian airmen. And it is the kind of project that makes some Maldivians fear that their sovereign territory is being prepared as a potential battleground (chiến địa) in somebody else’s war.
source: nytimes,
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