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Articles: Indian Ocean


The fatal flaw in America’s Indo-Pacific designs

Asia Times, September 21, 2020

The Diego Garcia airbase is key to US monitoring of China's sea moves but it could soon lose the secretive Indian Ocean outpost
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China eyes a Covid-19 edge in the Indian Ocean

Asia Times, April 23, 2020

China is leveraging coronavirus confusion and distraction to make gains in rival India’s maritime backyard
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Covid-19 sows Islamic trouble in Maldives paradise

Asia Times, April 05, 2020

Tourism-dependent island nation threatens to become a hotbed of religious extremism as economic desperation sets in
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Quarantined Maldives needs China to survive

Asia Times, March 27, 2020

Idyllic Island nation's crucial tourism industry devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic as China and India jockey for its strategic position
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Legal storm clouds gather over Diego Garcia

Asia Times, March 08, 2019

An International Court of Justice advisory could eventually upend America’s long-held lease on the strategic Indian Ocean military facility
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India, Japan joining forces to keep Indian Ocean calm

Asia Times, October 26, 2018

Chinese president Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative has added a strategic dimension that is impacting the Indian Ocean's balance of power
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Maldives teeters towards post-election chaos

Asia Times, September 28, 2018

Pro-China leader Abdulla Yameen claims his Sept. 23 election loss was 'flawed', a brazen bid to withhold the presidency from his India-aligned rival Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
[read the article at www.atimes.com]

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India wins, China loses in Maldives election

Asia Times, September 25, 2018

Indian Ocean republic's presidential poll was a China vs India proxy battle that saw pro-Delhi candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih prevail
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New Cold War in the Indian Ocean

Asia Times, June 16, 2017

Great power competition between the US, India, Japan and Australia on one side, and China on the other, is raising the strategic stakes in the maritime area
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Myanmar as China's corridor to the sea

Asia Times, June 16, 2017

Beijing's vision of the Southeast Asian nation as an outlet for its landlocked regions to the Indian Ocean long predates the One Belt One Road initiative
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Island states targeted in great power competition

Asia Times, June 16, 2017

Indian Ocean nations are increasingly vulnerable to the manipulations of outside forces for their economic and strategic survival
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