China snaps at Nasheed over ‘smears and irresponsible remarks’
China has been accused of land-grabbing and dragging the Maldives into a debt-trap.
28 Sep 2018, 9:00 AM
Former president Mohamed Nasheed was criticised Wednesday for saying that China’s projects in the Maldives were commercially unfeasible and that they would be audited.
The attack, from Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesman, came days after President Abdulla Yameen conceded defeat to his opposition rival and Nasheed ally Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
Yameen has courted investment from China, which Nasheed has repeatedly accused of land-grabbing and dragging the Maldives into a debt trap.
Nasheed, in an interview with The Hindu newspaper published Monday, said countries with a single-party culture could not appreciate the complexities of multi-party elections and multi-party democracy.
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