Chinese convicts also have been dispatched to the Maldives, where the Chinese government is building 4,000 houses on several different islands as a government-to-government “gift” to win influence. So far, however, China has failed to persuade the country’s president to lease it one of the 700 uninhabited Maldivian islands for use as a small base for the Chinese navy.
中国服刑人员也被派到了马尔代夫，中国政府正在那里的几个岛上建设4，000栋房屋，作为获取影响力的政府对政府的“礼物”。 但到目前为止，中国还未能说服马尔代夫总统租借700个马尔代夫无人小岛中的一个，建设中国海军的小型基地。