What China And Global Media Are Saying About PM Modi’s Visit To Maldives | World News
New Delhi: On July 26, 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the Maldives’ 60th Independence Day celebrations as a guest. His presence in the event entered the headlines not only in India and Maldives, but in the world.
The visit stood out for several reasons. Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu built the 2023 election campaign around the slogan “India Out”. After coming to power, he sent strong signals that removed the country from India. It was also quickly moved to establish bonds with China. The first months in the office were marked by the decision to return the Indian military personnel placed in the Maldives. This was seen as a potential pivot towards Beijing in the new Delhi.
The same leader has now invited the Indian Prime Minister as a guest of honor at the country’s biggest official event. Symbolism was clear. In foreign capitals, especially in the Chinese Indian Ocean region, while continuing attempts to deepen the impact, he marked a closely followed moment.
Chinese state media responds
Beijing Global Times, a publication operated by the state, published a comment that criticizes the tone of the scope of the Indian media surrounding the visit. According to the publication, some Indian platforms depicted the trip as a strategic decline for China and a diplomatic win for India.
In his analysis, Global Times accused the Indian media of thinking zero in total, and suggested that any gain for India should mean a loss for China. He argued from Qian Feng, the Director of the National Strategy Institute of Tsinghua, that Maldives naturally prioritized relations with their neighbors, but continued a diversified foreign policy, including China’s belt and road attempt. “These approaches are not in conflict,” he said.
Weighing Singapore and US media
“India’s modi, Maldives reshapes its ties with the Maldives.” His reports emphasized how Modi’s visit contains new infrastructure partnerships, financial commitments and renewed temperature symptoms between the two countries.
Prime Minister Modi opened projects financed by a new Ministry of Defense Ministry and India and announced economic support.
According to Channel News Asia, the visit was seen as a guarantee that Maldives would not be dragged into China’s orbit in New Delhi. The channel emphasized how Muizzu’s first months increased concerns after ordering the withdrawal of Indian military personnel.
The Washington Post repeated this view. In a detailed report, he called the two -day trip as “strategically vital ve and said that India pointed to the targets of claiming existence on the key maritime in the Indian Ocean. He emphasized that a credit announcement of $ 565 million from India was announced to finance development projects. The publication said that the visit could mark the beginning of a shift to recover the normality in binary vineyards.
A look from England
British Daily The Independent framing the visit in the context of the last diplomatic turbulence. The broadcast stressed that after introducing the Indian government as a tourism center, the Indian government increased, which we perceived some of the Maldives as an attempt to remove Indian tourists from the beaches. Celebrities in India even called the Maldives boycott as a travel place.
The report is something that is not noticed in the new Delhi, where President Muizzu chose to visit China before making a trip to India. Muizzu’s post -Chinese announcement in reducing dependence on India for foundations such as medicine and food was concerned.
However, when Muizzu attended the profanity of Modi earlier this year, things began to develop. This visit prepared the ground for gradual heating of the bonds reaching the climax on the current journey.
A new stage for India-Maldives relations
Pakistan’s Express Tribune said that Modi’s visit ended with clarity and mutual confirmation note. He described President Muizzu’s trip as a “determining moment ında in the relations between the two countries. At the end of the visit, Muizzu accepted the importance of human-human relations and long-term cooperation between sectors. In a mutual message, PM Modi said that he would be with the people of Maldives in India’s wishes.
Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW) provided a strategic lens during the visit. He emphasized the critical position of Maldives throughout the shipping strips in the Indian Ocean. Despite his image as a tourist paradise, the report described the Maldives as a “geopolitical hot dot” on the island of 1.192.
DW pointed out how this geography has made it a focal point in the increasing competition between India and China. His reports argued that the region had more about leisure time and sea strategy and political impact.
What do experts say
According to an interpretation of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) Deputy Aditya Shivamurti, Maldives’ policy initially leaned against China at the beginning. In 2023, “India” explained how discourse dominated, and India’s existence sharply decreased.
However, until 2024, Shivamurti observed a change. The internal economic situation in the Maldives has worsening. Parliament dynamics changed. Chinese promises could not meet expectations. These developments pushed Muizzu to re -evaluate foreign policy.
The analysis added that India responds with pragmatism. He avoided rise and focused on diplomatic participation and support instead. In contrast, Maldives leadership began to accept India’s critical role in areas such as health, development and infrastructure.
ORF’s report concluded that both countries are trying to distinguish foreign policy from domestic politics. While the Maldive Democratic Party historically pro -Indian and ruling PNC is leaning towards China, Muizzu seems moderate. He took steps to respect India’s sensitivities and has expanded the support in India.
In Shivamurti’s opinion, the visit was more than symbolic. This was a re -calibration. It shows that not only cuffs, but also pragmatism, diplomacy and common interests are still possible in a region full of rival effects.
