The country is a small country but it will not allow other countries to exploit it, the Maldives President said after his official visit to China. Speaking at the Vellana International Airport, Muizzu even went on to say that Maldives is not in the backyard of any particular country. “We are not a country in the backyard of any particular country. We are an independent and sovereign country. So this territorial integrity basis is one that China respects us very much,” he said.
