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From the Maldives he will travel to Sri Lanka where China has invested heavily, building a deep-sea harbour and an international airport in an area that straddles the east-west shipping lane, the world's busiest trade route.
The "maritime silk road" -- touted by Xi during a visit to Indonesia last year -- is intended to revive a trade route running from China through Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to Europe.
Chinese state news agency Xinhua said the Maldives' President Abdulla Yameen "expressed total agreement" with Xi's proposal, without giving further details.
Former president Mohamed Nasheed told Britain's Independent on Sunday paper at the weekend that up to 200 Maldivians were fighting for Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. The entire population of the Maldives is only around 330,000 Sunni Muslims.
In a show of solidarity for the pro-Western leadership in Kiev, soldiers from 15 nations including the United States began military exercises dubbed "Rapid Trident 14" near the western city of Lviv on Monday, about 620 miles (1,000 kilometres) from the conflict in Donetsk.
CIA, this week admitted that ISIS forces have in a short period of time tripled to 30,000.
OBAMA six point plan
1) Significantly expand the bombing campaign in Iraq
2) Train and equip the Iraqi army and Kurdish troops
3) Begin bombing in Syria
4) Train and arm the Syrian rebels
5) Get regional actors like Saudi Arabia and European allies on board to counter ISIS' regional and international influence
6) Keep US troops out and stay away from the Syrian and Iranian governments
The biggest number of foreigners joining ISIS are not from large Muslim countries, but from the West. For example, France has seen more than 700 join up, from its Muslim population of 5 million. The UK has seen more than 500 join ISIS out of its Muslim population of 2.7 million. And Germany, with approximately 5 million Muslims, has seen close to 350 head off to ISIS.
Around 40 Malaysian citizens have joined the Islamic State
According to analysts, around 200 Indonesians have gone to fight with the IS in Syria.
The US State Department said some 12,000 foreign jihadists from 50 countries have gone to fight in Syria since the conflict began more than three years ago.
Austria, the authorities said they suspect about 130 residents
As many as 150 Australians are also said to be fighting alongside ISIS overseas
Some one hundred Filipino-Muslims who have joined Abu Bakr Baghdadi’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil)
It is believed that more than 6,000 men joined the Islamic State in July.