Maldives signs defence pact with China; India starts pulling troops out
Days after a technical team from India arrived in the Maldives, to replace troops that President of Maldives Mohamed Muizzu wanted to be removed, the Maldivian Defence Ministry announced signing of a defence pact with China. Maldives’s Minister of Defence Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon and Major General Zhang Baoqun, Deputy Director at China’s Office for International…