China is Testing India by Trying to Control the Maldives Crisis

Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed was in Bangalore to attend The Hindu ‘Huddle’ on 17-18 February, wherein he was asked as to what exactly he had in mind when he sought the dispatch of a Special Envoy along with a military contingent from India. What was to be the agenda of this military contingent and what were to be its ‘mission objectives’?

Audio: The Quint